Tick size, liquidity for small and large orders, and price informativeness: Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot Program

KH Chung, AJ Lee, D Rösch - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Using limit order books across all US exchanges, we show that while liquidity for small
orders (eg, the quoted and effective spreads) decreases, liquidity for large orders (eg, the …

Tick size and financial reporting quality in small‐cap firms: Evidence from a natural experiment

AS Ahmed, Y Li, N Xu - Journal of Accounting Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Using a natural experiment (the SEC's 2016 Tick Size Pilot Program), we investigate the
effects of an increase in tick size on financial reporting quality. The tick size pilot program …

Statistical predictions of trading strategies in electronic markets

Á Cartea, SN Cohen, R Graumans… - Journal of Financial …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
We build statistical models to describe how market participants choose the direction, price,
and volume of orders. Our dataset, which spans 16 weeks for four shares traded in Euronext …

Algorithmic collusion in electronic markets: The impact of tick size

Á Cartea, P Chang, J Penalva - Available at SSRN 4105954, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We characterise the stochastic interaction of learning algorithms as a deterministic system of
differential equations to understand their long-term behaviour in a repeated game. In a …

Gauging the effects of stock liquidity on earnings management: evidence from the SEC tick size pilot test

D Li, Y Xia - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies whether stock market liquidity has a causal effect on real earnings
management. We introduce a new and cleaner identification of liquidity shock-the 2016 Tick …

Minimum tick size and analyst coverage: Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot Program

Z Chen, A Huffman… - Journal of Business …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We examine whether an exogenous increase in the minimum tick size created by the natural
experiment, the Tick Size Pilot Program, impacts analyst coverage. Proponents of the Tick …

Tick size and market quality: Simulations based on agent‐based artificial stock markets

X Yang, J Zhang, Q Ye - Intelligent Systems in Accounting …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the way that minimum tick size affects market quality based on an
agent‐based artificial stock market. Our results indicate that stepwise and combination …

[PDF][PDF] Reg NMS and minimum-tick distort the market in opposing directions: Theory and market experimental evidence

Y Lin, PL Swan, V Mollica - Available at SSRN 2913555, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate the SEC Tick Size Pilot which mandated an increase in minimum tick from 1
to 5 cents for small stocks. We predict and show that an increase in the minimum tick …

[PDF][PDF] Machine learning from randomized experiments: The case of the Tick Size Piot Program

H Kye - Unpublished Working Paper. Retrieved from https …, 2020 - henrykye.com
This paper investigates the Tick Size Pilot Program with the goal of policy evaluation beyond
average treatment effect. Using a machine learning approach, I study policy effects stock-by …

[PDF][PDF] When does the tick size help or harm market quality? evidence from the tick size pilot

YH Barardehi, P Dixon, Q Liu, A Lohr - When Does the Tick Size Help …, 2023 - cba.lmu.edu
Tick sizes provide a market quality tradeoff between pricing fidelity and undercutting—
suggesting that the same tick size change may affect narrow and wide-spread stocks …