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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Unveiling the relation between herding and liquidity with trader lead-lag networks
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Carlo Campajola
  • Fabrizio Lillo
  • Daniele Tantari
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Quantitative Finance
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1469-7688
Volume 20
Number 11
Page Range 1765 - 1778
Date 2020
Abstract Text We propose a method to infer lead-lag networks of traders from the observation of their trade record as well as to reconstruct their state of supply and demand when they do not trade. The method relies on the Kinetic Ising model to describe how information propagates among traders, assigning a positive or negative ‘opinion’ to all agents about whether the traded asset price will go up or down. This opinion is reflected by their trading behavior, but whenever the trader is not active in a given time window, a missing value will arise. Using a recently developed inference algorithm, we are able to reconstruct a lead-lag network and to estimate the unobserved opinions, giving a clearer picture about the state of supply and demand in the market at all times. We apply our method to a dataset of clients of a major dealer in the Foreign Exchange market at the 5 minute time scale. We identify leading players in the market and define a herding measure based on the observed and inferred opinions. We show the causal link between herding and liquidity in the inter-dealer market used by dealers to rebalance their inventories.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1080/14697688.2020.1763442
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20168
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Keywords General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance