NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Market Microstructure Meeting



Bruce Lehmann, Matthew Spiegel, and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Organizers



December 3, 2004



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2:



7:00 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel





FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM AMBER ANAND, Syracuse University

Information and the Intermediary:

Are Market Intermediaries Informed Traders in Electronic Markets?



Discussant: LEI YU, University of Notre Dame



10:00 AM KERRY BACK, Texas A & M University

SHMUEL BARUCH, University of Utah

Limit-Order Markets and Floor Exchanges:

An Irrelevance Proposition



Discussant: CHRISTINE PARLOUR, Carnegie Mellon University



11:00 AM Break



11:15 AM JOHN CAMPBELL, Harvard University and NBER

TARUN RAMADORAI, University of Oxford

TUOMO VUOLTEENAHO, Harvard University

Caught on Tape: Predicting Institutional Ownership with Order Flow



Discussant: GIDEON SAAR, New York University

12:15 PM Lunch

Speaker: PAUL BENNETT, New York Stock Exchange





1:45 PM XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER

PARAMESWARAN GOPIKRISHNAN, VASILIKI PLEROU and

H. EUGENE STANLEY, Boston University

A Theory of Large Fluctuations in Stock Market Activity



Discussant: SOEREN HVIDKJAER, University of Maryland



2:45 PM JONATHAN MACEY, Yale University

MAUREEN O'HARA and DAVID POMPILIO, Cornell University

Down and Out in the Stock Market:

The Law and Finance of the Delisting Process



Discussant: OLIVER HANSCH, Pennsylvania State University



3:45 PM Break



4:00 PM MARTIN EVANS, Georgetown University and NBER

RICHARD LYONS, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow



Discussant: BRUNO BIAIS, University of Toulouse



5:00 PM Adjourn







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