EXcess Idle Time

Federico M. Bandi

doi:10.3982/ECTA13595

EXcess Idle Time

2017-01-01

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DOI：10.3982/ECTA13595

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We introduce a novel economic indicator, named excess idle time (EXIT), measuring the extent of sluggishness in financial prices. Under a null and an alternative hypothesis grounded in no-arbitrage (the null) and market microstructure (the alternative) theories of price determination, we derive a limit theory for EXIT leading to formal tests for staleness in the price adjustments. Empirical implementation of the theory indicates that financial prices are often more sluggish than implied by the (ubiquitous, in frictionless continuous-time asset pricing) semimartingale assumption. EXIT is interpretable as an illiquidity proxy and is easily implementable, for each trading day, using transaction prices only. By using EXIT, we show how to estimate structurally market microstructure models with asymmetric information.

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Liquidity

asymmetric information

liquidity premium

continuous-time semimartingales

infill asymptotics

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