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Market Microstructure

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Market microstructure
The functional setup of a market.

Market Microstructure
The way a market or exchange functions under a given set of rules. The study of market microstructure deals with how well or poorly an exchange's rules encourage efficient trading. For example, one who studies market microstructure might conduct research into the similarities and differences in exchanges that have open outcry trading and those that are exclusively electronic.


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The NBER's Working Group on Market Microstructure met in Cambridge on May 29.
A full analysis of 2008 hedge fund launches and liquidations is included in the HFR Market Microstructure Industry Report: Year End 2008.
The market microstructure literature studies how the actual transaction process--i.
 
 
 
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