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HYDRODYNAMIC LIMIT OF ORDER-BOOK DYNAMICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2016

Xuefeng Gao
Affiliation:
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong E-mail:xfgao@se.cuhk.edu.hk
S.J. Deng
Affiliation:
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA E-mail:deng@isye.gatech.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper, we establish a fluid limit for a two-sided Markov order book model. The main result states that in a certain asymptotic regime, a pair of measure-valued processes representing the “sell-side shape” and “buy-side shape” of an order book converges to a pair of deterministic measure-valued processes in a certain sense. We also test the fluid approximation on data. The empirical results suggest that the approximation is reasonably good for liquidly traded stocks in certain time periods.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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