{"title":"Liquid speed: A micro-burst fee for low-latency exchanges","authors":"Michael Brolley , Marius Zoican","doi":"10.1016/j.finmar.2022.100785","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A micro-burst fee on liquidity-taking orders that surges during high-frequency races reduces costs associated with latency arbitrage. Moreover, micro-burst fees provide higher revenue for exchanges versus co-location subscriptions. Unlike co-location fees, micro-burst fees scale with trading activity and allow exchanges to extract higher revenues from HFTs. To ensure long-run adoption incentives for exchanges, a regulator should impose a cap on micro-burst fees; for example, a calibration suggests that liquidity improves with a micro-burst fee as low as 7.8 bps, while a Reg NMS cap on fees of 30 bps per share would improve liquidity by 75%.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Markets","volume":"64 ","pages":"Article 100785"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Financial Markets","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138641812200074X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A micro-burst fee on liquidity-taking orders that surges during high-frequency races reduces costs associated with latency arbitrage. Moreover, micro-burst fees provide higher revenue for exchanges versus co-location subscriptions. Unlike co-location fees, micro-burst fees scale with trading activity and allow exchanges to extract higher revenues from HFTs. To ensure long-run adoption incentives for exchanges, a regulator should impose a cap on micro-burst fees; for example, a calibration suggests that liquidity improves with a micro-burst fee as low as 7.8 bps, while a Reg NMS cap on fees of 30 bps per share would improve liquidity by 75%.
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The Journal of Financial Markets publishes high quality original research on applied and theoretical issues related to securities trading and pricing. Area of coverage includes the analysis and design of trading mechanisms, optimal order placement strategies, the role of information in securities markets, financial intermediation as it relates to securities investments - for example, the structure of brokerage and mutual fund industries, and analyses of short and long run horizon price behaviour. The journal strives to maintain a balance between theoretical and empirical work, and aims to provide prompt and constructive reviews to paper submitters.