Market microstructure studies how trading rules turn orders into prices and allocations. Those rules have been rebuilt repeatedly: for floor traders, electronic limit order books and high-frequency trading, batch auctions and dark pools, blockchains run by automated market makers and block builders, and now AI agents t...
This work proposes a four-layer framework (Policy, Engineering, Composition, Systemic) grounded in two distinct kinds of evidence, kept explicitly separate, and provides a 90-day implementation sequence spanning trading and payments/customer-facing systems.
We estimate Kyle's (1985) price-impact coefficient $\lambda$ directly from daily equity order flow and test its ability to forecast the cross-section of subsequent stock returns. Using CRSP data from 2020 to 2025, we construct firm-month measures of signed order flow and two estimators of $\hat\lambda_{it}$: a within-m...
Irene Aldridge· 0 citations
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