The trading systems used on financial markets differ in terms of matching procedures, selected norms to write contracts, existence or not of intermediaries to ensure liquidity, market transparency... We are interested in measuring the direct effect on market specifics of a matching procedure...

This paper presents a study of intra-day patterns of stock market activity and introduces duration based activity measures for single stocks and multiple assets. The proposed measures involve weighted durations, i.e. times necessary to sell (buy) a predetermined volume or value of stocks. As...

The aim of our paper is to price credit derivatives written on a single name when this name is a bank. Indeed, due to the special structure of the balance sheet of a bank and to the interconnections with other institutions of the financial system, the standard pricing formulas do not apply and...