Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action -- Preface -- Microeconomics, Chap. 1 -- Finance, Chap. 2 -- Macroeconomics, Chap. 3 -- Information Systems, Chap. 4 -- Simulated Trading, Chap. 5 -- Aim of This Book -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- 1: Economics and the Equity Market: A Microeconomics Course Application -- 1.1 Microeconomics in a Nutshell -- 1.2 Microeconomic Analysis Goes to an Equity Market -- 1.3 Risk, Return Indifference Curves -- 1.4 The Constraint -- 1.5 Demand Curve to Hold Shares of the Market Portfolio -- 1.6 What About the Supply Curve? -- 1.7 Buy and Sell Curves -- 1.8 The Non-frictionless Market -- 1.9 Wrap Up: Microeconomics in a Non-frictionless Financial Market -- 2: Liquidity, Trading, and Price Determination in Equity Markets: A Finance Course Application -- 2.1 Order Types -- 2.2 Trading Costs -- 2.3 What Drives Trading? -- 2.4 Price Discovery: A Major Function of a Marketplace -- 2.5 Trading: The Implementation of an Investment Decision -- 2.6 Intraday Price Volatility -- 2.7 Liquidity -- 2.8 Equity Market Structures -- 2.8.1 Hybrid Markets -- 2.8.2 Handling Large Orders -- 2.9 Financial Markets and the Process of Turning Orders into Trades -- 2.9.1 Trades in Continuous Order-Driven Markets -- 2.9.2 Trades in Call Auction Markets -- 2.9.3 Trades in Continuous Dealer Markets -- 2.10 Regulation, Technology, and the Quality of Market Structure -- 2.11 Wrapping It Up: Market Efficiency in a Non-frictionless World -- 3: Liquidity and the Impact of Information Shocks: A Macroeconomics Course Application -- 3.1 Economic Conditions, Business Cycles, and the Role of Interest Rates -- 3.2 The Federal Reserve and the Link Between the Macroeconomy and Financial Markets -- 3.3 The Impact of Information Shocks on Divergent Expectations and Price Discovery -- 3.4 The Various Types of Financial Markets.