English

Slow decay of impact in equity markets

Trading and Market Microstructure 2014-07-15 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Using a proprietary dataset of meta-orders and prediction signals, and assuming a quasi-linear impact model, we deconvolve market impact from past correlated trades and a predictable return component to elicit the temporal dependence of the market impact of a single daily meta-order, over a ten day horizon in various equity markets. We find that the impact of single meta-orders is to a first approximation universal and slowly decays to zero (or to a small value), possibly as a power-law. We show that auto-correlated order-flows and trade information contents fully accounts for the apparent plateau observed in the raw data. We discuss the possible bias introduced by the quasi-linear assumption.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3390,
  title  = {Slow decay of impact in equity markets},
  author = {X. Brokmann and E. Serie and J. Kockelkoren and J. -P. Bouchaud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3390},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, submitted to "Market Microstructure & Liquidity"