Low-traffic limit and first-passage times for a simple model of the continuous double auction

Enrico Scalas, Fabio Rapallo and Tijana Radivojević

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017, vol. 485, issue C, 61-72

Abstract: We consider a simplified model of the continuous double auction where prices are integers varying from 1 to N with limit orders and market orders, but quantity per order limited to a single share. For this model, the order process is equivalent to two M∕M∕1 queues. We study the behavior of the auction in the low-traffic limit where limit orders are immediately matched by market orders. In this limit, the distribution of prices can be computed exactly and gives a reasonable approximation of the price distribution when the ratio between the rate of order arrivals and the rate of order executions is below 1∕2. This is further confirmed by the analysis of the first-passage time in 1 or N.

Keywords: Double auction; Markov chains; Queueing theory; Low-traffic limit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.05.020

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