The research results of Associate Professor Wei Lijian and his students were published in the Journal of Management Sciences in China

Last updated:2022-11-18

Recently, Associate Professor Wei Lijian of the School of Business, Zhang Dawei and Zhang Yangfeng - graduates of our school that he supervised, and co-author Professor Luo Xingguo of Zhejiang University published their article "High-frequency Trading and Price Discovery in Stock Index Futures Market" in the Journal of Management Sciences in China.

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This article analyzes the impact of high-frequency trading on price discovery efficiency based on the millisecond high-frequency trading data of stock index futures from 2010 to 2015, and suggests that from the perspective of improving the competitiveness of China's derivatives market, for high-frequency trading, no one-size-fits-all standards should be adopted. Under the condition of restricting high-frequency trading competition, high-frequency trading based on information and arbitrage, and even market making which registered high-frequency trading should be allows to enhance market liquidity. However, order flow-driven high-frequency trading should be strictly restricted to eliminate the negative impact of high-frequency trading.