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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Market Microstructure Meeting

 

May 29, 2009

 

Charles Jones, Eugene Kandel, Bruce Lehmann, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Organizers

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, May 28:

 

7:00 pm            Group Dinner

                        Dante Restaurant

                        Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

Friday, May 29:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:00 am and 8:15 am

 

8:15 am            Continental Breakfast

 

8:45 am            Ronnie Sadka, Boston College

                        Liquidity Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge-Fund Returns

 

                        Discussant:  Akiko Watanabe, University of Alberta

 

9:35 am            Coffee Break

 

9:50 am            Shane Corwin, University of Notre Dame

                        Paul Schultz, University of Notre Dame

                        A Simple Way to Estimate Bid-Ask Spreads from Daily High and Low Prices

 

                        Discussant:  Ryan Davies, Babson College

 

10:40 am          Coffee Break

 

10:55 am          Alain Chaboud, Federal Reserve Board

                        Benjamin Chiquoine, The Investment Fund for Foundations

                        Erik Hjalmarsson, Federal Reserve Board

                        Clara Vega, Federal Reserve Board

                        Rise of the Machines:  Algorithmic Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market

 

                        Discussant:  Albert Menkveld, VU University Amsterdam

 

11:45 am          Lunch

 

1:30 pm            Lawrence Harris, University of Southern California

                        Ethan Namvar, UC, Irvine

                        Blake Phillips, University of Alberta

                        Price Inflation and Wealth Transfer during the 2008 SEC

Short-Sale Ban

 

                        Discussant:  Xiaoyan Zhang, Cornell University

 

2:20 pm            Coffee Break

 

2:35 pm            Zhi Da, University of Notre Dame

                        Joseph Engelberg, University of North Carolina

                        Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame

                        In Search of Attention

 

                        Discussant:  Paul Tetlock, Columbia University

 

3:25 pm            Coffee Break

 

3:40 pm            Stewart Mayhew, Securities and Exchange Commission

                        Timothy McCormick, Securities and Exchange Commission

                        Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

The Information Content of Market-on-Close Imbalances, the Specialist and NYSE Equity Prices

 

                        Discussant:  Carole Comerton-Forde, University of Sydney

 

4:30 pm            Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

5/14/09