Correlations in price changes and volatility across international stock markets

The short-run interdependence of prices and price volatilityacross three major international stock market is studied. Dailyopening and closing prices of major stock indexes for the Tokyo,London, and New York stock markets are examined. The analysisutilizes the autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (ARCH)family of statistical models to explore these pricing relationship.Evidence of price volatility spillovers from New York to Tokyo,London to Tokyo, and New York to London is observed, but noprice volatility spillover effects in other directions are foundfor the pre-October 1987 period.     

Securities trading in the absence of dealers: trades and quotes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

This article investigates the behaviour of intraday trades andquotes for individual stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).We examine the transaction and quote record for three firmsfor the first 3 months of 1990. Our findings suggest that theimmediacy available (at least for small trades) in the marketis high, despite the reliance on public limit orders to supplyliquidity. When orders that would otherwise walk through thelimit order book are converted into limit orders, executionis delayed, but some orders execute (at least in part) at morefavorable prices.