NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Market Microstructure Meeting



Bruce Lehmann, Andrew Lo, Matthew Spiegel, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Organizers



December 6, 2002



NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5:



7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel





FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6:



8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Ave.



8:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Ave.



8:45 AM Continental Breakfast



9:15 AM BRUNO BIAIS and CHRISTOPHE BISIÈRE, Toulouse University

CHESTER SPATT, Carnegie Mellon University

Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: ISLAND vs. NASDAQ



Discussant: STEWART MAYHEW, University of Georgia



10:15 AM Break



10:45 AM SUGATO CHAKRAVARTY, Purdue University

VENKATESH PANCHAPAGESAN, Washington University

ROBERT WOOD, University of Memphis

Has Decimalization Hurt Institutional Investors? An Investigation into Trading Costs and Order Routing Practices of Buy-Side Institutions



Discussant: TARUN CHORDIA, Emory University



11:45 AM Lunch

Speaker: ROBERT SEIJAS, New York Stock Exchange





1:30 PM KEE CHUNG, SUNY

CHAIRAT CHUWONGANANT, Purdue University

D. TIMOTHY MCCORMICK, NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

Order Preferencing and Market Quality on NASDAQ Before and After Decimalization



Discussant: MICHAEL BARCLAY, University of Rochester and NBER



2:30 PM BURTON HOLLIFIELD and ROBERT MILLER, Carnegie Mellon University

PATRIK SANDAS, University of Pennsylvania

JOSHUA SLIVE, HEC Montreal

Liquidity Supply and Demand in Limit Order Markets



Discussant: OHAD KADAN, Washington University



3:30 PM Break



3:45 PM MAGUEYE DIA, Oxford University

SÉBASTIEN POUGET, Georgia State University

Sunshine Trading in West-Africa: Liquidity and Price Formation of Infrequently Traded Stocks



Discussant: VENKATESH PANCHAPAGESAN, Washington University



4:45 PM Adjourn



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