The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response * | The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Abstract. The high-frequency trading arms race is a symptom of flawed market design. Instead of the continuous limit order book market design that is currently

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