9th Annual Central Bank Workshop on the Microstructure of Financial Markets
5-6 September 2013, Frankfurt am Main
Attendance is by invitation only. If you are interested in attending this event, please send an e-mail to microstructure@ecb.europa.eu.
8.30 a.m. | Registration and coffee |
9 a.m. | Welcome address |
9.20 a.m. | Session 1: Foreign Exchange |
Official interventions through derivatives: affecting the demand for foreign exchange Discussant: |
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Toxic arbitrage Discussant: |
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10.40 a.m. | Coffee break |
11:00 a.m. | Session 2: Sovereign debt auctions |
When-issued markets and Treasury auctions Discussant: |
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Price effects of sovereign debt auctions in the euro-zone: the role of the crisis Discussant: |
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12.20 p.m. | Lunch |
1.30 p.m. | Keynote Speech Redesigning LIBOR Darrell Duffie (Stanford Graduate School of Business) presentation |
2.45 p.m. | Coffee break |
3.00 p.m. | Session 3: Repo markets |
The re-use of collateral in the Swiss franc repo market Discussant: |
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The importance of being special: repo markets during the crisis Discussant: |
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4.20 p.m. | Coffee break |
4.45 p.m. | Policy panel: Ulrich Bindseil (European Central Bank); Frank Hatheway (Nasdaq OMX); Marco Pagano (Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance) presentationand Allen Zhang (U.S. Treasury) |
6.00 p.m. | End of the first day |
7.30 p.m. | Conference dinner (by invitation only) Venue: Emma Metzler, Schaumainkai 17, 60594 Frankfurt am Main |
9 a.m. | Session 4: Market stability |
Market quality breakdowns in equities Discussant: |
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Circuit breakers and market runs Discussant: |
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10.20 a.m. | Coffee break |
10.50 a.m | Session 5: High-frequency trading – empirical evidence |
Do retail traders suffer from high-frequency traders? Discussant: |
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The externalities of high-frequency trading Discussant: |
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12.10 p.m | Lunch |
1.30 p.m | Session 6: High-frequency trading – theory |
The welfare impact of high-frequency trading Discussant: |
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How fast can you trade? High-frequency trading in dynamic limit order markets Discussant: |
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2:50 p.m | Coffee break |
3.20 p.m | Session 7: Market structure |
An empirical analysis of market segmentation on US equities markets Discussant: |
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Decentralised exchange Discussant: |
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4:40 p.m | End of the conference. |
The European Central Bank will be hosting the 9th Annual Central Bank Workshop in Market Microstructure in the fall of 2013. The aim of this series of conferences is to bring together top researchers and policy makers from central banks and other key institutions to discuss and present recent research related to market (infra-) structures and liquidity of equity, fixed income and foreign exchange markets.
This two-day conference will feature a keynote speech by Prof. Darrell Duffie (Stanford GSB) and a Policy Panel on Market Microstructure; confirmed speakers include Prof. Marco Pagano (University of Naples and CEPR) and Ulrich Bindseil (ECB).
Paper submission
We invite submissions of high-quality research papers dealing with all facets of market microstructure, both empirical and theoretical. We particularly encourage contributions on the following topics:
- Fixed income markets (money markets, bond markets).
- Long-run trends in Market Microstructure, e.g. opacity, OTC vs. regulated markets, efficiency, and automation.
- The impact of current regulatory initiatives on market structure, e.g. transaction taxes, Vickers / Volcker Rule, CCPs, LIBOR reform.
Authors may submit drafts of completed papers in pdf form to microstructure@ecb.europa.eu. The deadline for submission is 30 April 2013. Papers will be selected by the program committee and the authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 June 2013. There is no conference fee. There will be no reimbursement of travel expenses for conference participants.
Program Committee
- Jean-Edouard Colliard (ECB)
- Martin Evans (Georgetown U)
- Michael Fleming (Fed New York)
- Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris)
- Peter Hoffmann (ECB)
- Ingrid Lo (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Michael Moore (QU Belfast)
- Bernt Arne Odegaard (U of Stavanger)
- Carol Osler (Brandeis U)
- Christine Parlour (UC Berkeley)
- Dagfinn Rime (Norges Bank)
- Asani Sarkar (New York Fed)
- Giorgio Valente (Essex)