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- Title
Tick size, market structure, and market quality.
- Authors
Chung, Kee; Kang, Jangkoo; Kim, Joon-Seok
- Abstract
Large tick sizes imposed on high-priced stocks on the Korea Stock Exchange (KSE) are significant binding constraints on bid-ask spreads. Nearly 60% of quoted spreads are equal to the tick size for stocks with the largest tick size and more than 87% of quoted spreads are equal to the tick size for stocks in the largest size portfolio. We also show that the average spread of KSE stocks with large tick sizes is greater than that of matched NYSE stocks, whereas the average spread of KSE stocks with the smallest tick size is smaller than the corresponding figure for the matched NYSE stocks. We interpret these results as evidence that traders on the KSE are paying large trading costs because of the artificially imposed large tick sizes.
- Subjects
INDUSTRIAL organization (Economic theory); STOCK prices; STOCK exchanges; ASKED price; FINANCIAL markets; ECONOMISTS; LIQUIDITY (Economics)
- Publication
Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0924-865X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11156-010-0171-6