The price path due to order imbalances: evidence from the Amsterdam Agricultural Futures Exchange

The lack of sufficient market depth particularly in many newly initiated futures markets results in relatively high hedging costs, and this inhibits the growth of futures contract volume. In this article the price path due to order imbalances is analyzed and a two-dimensional market depth measure is derived.Understanding the underlying structure of futures market depth provides the management of the futures exchange with a framework for improving their market depth and gives hedgers a better understanding of market depth risk. The managerial implications of our findings are demonstrated empirically using data from the Amsterdam Agricultural Futures Exchange.     

灌注式护坡桩的设计方法

本文从分析护坡桩常见的破坏方式及原因入手，提出在设计中应对一些主要问题根据不同的条件具体进行考虑，并对灌注式护坡桩的设计方法进行了探讨。文章首先分析了护坡桩五种常见的破坏方式及原因，并按悬臂式、单锚浅埋、单锚深埋三种类型探讨，论述了灌注式护坡桩的设计方法，同时对基底隆起问题及锚杆设计问题进行了分析。     

50米钢箱梁加工制造施工技术研究

成都天府机场高速公路50m钢箱梁施工,为克服长大件钢箱梁的制架梁难点,由中铁山桥在成都基地工厂先制造板单元,其次拼装梁段,经大件运输28km至施工现场,然后现场吊装架设,本项目钢梁为工字型结构,每个梁段由底板、腹板、顶板、横联及挑臂组成.梁段制造,每桥钢板梁实际拼装为各个节段全部在同一胎模架上进行预拼装,按照由中间向两...     

技术多元化、地理多样性与企业创新绩效

为研究技术多元化与创新绩效之间的关系以及地理多样性在两者之间的调节作用,利用550家知识密集型行业上市公司2012—2019年的面板数据,通过泊松面板固定效应模型对研究假设进行检验。研究结果表明：技术广度多元化和技术深度多元化对创新绩效都有显著的促进作用;地理多样性广度和地理多样性深度正向调节技术广度多元化与创新绩效之间的关系,负向调节技术深度多元化与创新绩效之间的关系。     

我国三线城市保险业发展水平与影响因素分析

我国三线城市保险业发展存在着严重的不平衡,而且差距较大;影响三线城市保险业发展的因素众多。主要包括GDP、人口数量及分布、城镇居民人均可支配收入和地理位置等。经济发达的省份,三线城市保险业发展水平也普遍较高;但在整体保险业发展水平落后于东部发达地区的情况下,部分中西部三线城市的保险业发展水平却并不低,而且有的已超过了一些省会城市,三线城市所蕴含的商机逐步显现。     

Education and growth with endogenous debt constraints

When future human capital cannot be alienated, households are allowed to borrow up to the point where it is in their own interest not to default. In such a framework, endogenous borrowing limits arise as the outcome of individual rationality constraint. In a model where education is the engine of growth, we show that endogenous borrowing constraints imply global indeterminacy. Comparing outcomes across the various equilibria we show that the relation between growth and yields is hump-shaped. Maximum growth can arise in an equilibrium with binding borrowing constraints, specially if the elasticity of human capital to education spending is large. Deepening financial markets promotes long-run growth in the case of a poverty trap, but not necessarily otherwise. On the methodological side, our approach stresses the importance of studying borrowing limits in general equilibrium, not only in small open economies. Philippe Michel passed away on July 22, 2004. His death is a great loss for his friends and for the overlapping generations and optimal control community.     

A microstructure examination of trading activity following stock splits

In a study of 1,131 stock splits spanning the period 1983–1989 we observe an increase in the number of trades as well as a reduction in the mean trade size following the split. Combined with earlier reported findings of an increase in the number of shareholders postsplit, we conclude that the number of liquidity traders increases after a split. We confirm the previously observed increase in the bid-ask spread following a split, and upon decomposition of the spread find an increase in its adverse selection component in the postsplit period. This is consistent with the finding by Brennan and Hughes (1991) of an increase in the number of analysts following a stock after a split. Further, observing a decrease in market depth following a split we determine that Kyle-type models incorporating diverse private information for informed traders most correctly describe the nature of security trading. Since this decrease in postsplit market depth is not related to the trading volume or the split factor, we reject price correction explanations for stock splits.     

Price Clustering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

This paper examines price clustering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). Regardless of tick and lot size, prices ending in zero and five are the most popular. The TSE has no market makers or direct negotiation between traders; therefore, clustering is not explained by collusion or negotiation. Our evidence supports the attraction hypothesis. Clustering also extends to order book depth. There is evidence of strategic trading behavior as traders place orders one price tick better than zero and five to avoid queuing orders at prices ending in these digits. Strategic trading behavior declined and clustering increased when the market became anonymous.     

How is Futures Trading Affected by the Move to a Computerized Trading System? Lessons from the LIFFE FTSE 100 Contract

Abstract:  We consider the impact of the May 1999 move to screen trading of the LIFFE FTSE 100 index futures contract. This resulted in a narrowing of the effective spread. Spread determinants are broadly similar in the two regimes. The narrowing of the spread appears due to increased competition among traders and a decline in tick-level volatility rather than to the way these or other variables affect the spread. Market depth appears largely unaffected. Under screen trading, realized spreads widen as more limit orders are taken up rather than in relation to order size per se .     

Shifting International Competitiveness: An Analysis of Market Share in Manufacturing Industries in Japan,Korea, Taiwan and the USA*

In the present study we conduct constant market share analysis of the imports and apparent consumption of the manufacturing industries of four major economies‐Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the USA. Additionally, the current study disaggregates import penetration in manufacturing, including sectors with relatively high technological requirements. Statistical tests of the significance of changes in import penetration in manufacturing industries are also conducted. The real growth of exports and apparent consumption in the two largest OECD markets is decomposed into: (i) the commodity composition effect; and (ii) the competitiveness effect. Finally, we examine the significance of trade policy for changes in import penetration in Japan and the USA.