Seminar series
Date
Fri, 22 Nov 2013
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
L4
Speaker
Pierre Collin-Dufresne
Organisation
EPFL/Columbia

We extend Kyle's (1985) model of insider trading to the case where liquidity provided

by noise traders follows a general stochastic process. Even though the level of noise

trading volatility is observable, in equilibrium, measured price impact is stochastic.

If noise trading volatility is mean-reverting, then the equilibrium price follows a

multivariate stochastic volatility `bridge' process. More private information is revealed

when volatility is higher. This is because insiders choose to optimally wait to trade

more aggressively when noise trading volatility is higher. In equilibrium, market makers

anticipate this, and adjust prices accordingly. In time series, insiders trade more

aggressively, when measured price impact is lower. Therefore, aggregate execution costs

to uninformed traders can be higher when price impact is lower

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