Mutations Financières

G.
Capelle-Blancard 30/03/2017
Mutations financières
La taxation des transactions

financières
Gunther Capelle-Blancard
A controversial topic
“And then there’s the proposal for a Financial Transactions Tax...
Even to be considering this at a time when we are struggling to get
our economies growing is quite simply madness”.
David Cameron, British Prime Minister
“And then there’s the idea of taxing financial transactions, which

have exploded in recent decades.The economic value of all this
trading is dubious at best. In fact, there’s considerable evidence
suggesting that too much trading is going on… it suggests that to
the extent that taxing financial transactions reduces the volume of
wheeling and dealing, that would be a good thing.”
Paul Krugman, economist and Nobel Laureate
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G. Capelle-Blancard 30/03/2017
A controversial topic
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Public opinion
European Parliament Eurobarometer (EB77.2)

Coverage: EU27 (26 593 EU citizens)
Population: Europeans aged 15 or over
Methodology: Face-to-face (CAPI)
Fieldwork: 10-25 March 2012 carried out by TNS
Opinion
66% of Europeans are in favour of the principle of

a financial transaction tax
73% in the euro zone, 78% in Germany, 79% in
France, 66% in Spain… 53% in the UK
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Public opinion
What is the main reason behind your support for a
tax on financial transactions?
Combat excessive speculation and so help to
prevent future crisis: 42%
Make financial players contribute to the costs
of the crisis: 36%
Reduce public deficits: 12%
Finance innovative politics: 7%
Others/Don’t know: 3%
Public opinion
What is the main reason behind your objection to a
tax on financial transactions in the EU?
Weaken the competitiveness of the European financial
market: 23%
Not be feasible, such a tax on financial transactions can only
be introduced at a global level: 23%
Cause and outflow of capital from the EU: 23%
Only make European financial players contribute to the
costs of the crisis: 21%
Others/Don’t know: 10%
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Google trend
Outline
I. Stock prices are not open-ended. Stock trading seems

to be
II. Financial transaction taxes around the world: Past,
Present and Future
III. A global theoretical framework
IV. Empirical evidence: Financial transaction taxes have no
impact
V. Fiscal revenue
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Stock prices are not open-ended.

Stock trading seems to be
PART I
The growth of stock trading in the US

a. NYSE trading volume (1888-2013, monthly)
80000
Monthly num ber of shares traded (millions)
20000 40000 0 60000
1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020
10 computation
Author’s
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952 quotes per minute were disseminated

for all stocks on all exchanges in the U.S.
14,319 134,108
Source : Angel, Harris et Chester Spatt, 2013. Equity Trading in the 21st Century
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Angel, Harris, Spatt (2013). Equity Trading in the 21st Century: An Update
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Stylized facts
Total value of stock traded in the world is about…
$100 trillion in 2013
$5 trillion in 1992
Stock traded/GDP is equal to…

130% in 2013
20% in 1992
This growth is even more pronounced for high-

income countries
US stock trading = US GDP x 3
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Table 1. Total value of stock traded
Data on traded value is from the World Bank for 1992 and from Thomson Reuters (Monthly Market Share Reports) for
2013. Notes: a) US + Europe + Asia Pacific; b) Shanghai + Shenzen.
2013 1992
($ trillion) (% GDP) ($ trillion) (% GDP)
US 49,589 295% 2,081 33%
Europe 24,326 112% 1,223 14%
France 2,712 99% 122 9%
Germany 3,947 109% 446 22%
UK 4,810 191% 383 35%
Asia Pacific 22,570 103% 1,031 18%
China 7,673 b) 83% 17 4%
Japan 8,480 173% 635 16%
World 96,485 a) 128% 4,783 20%
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Author’s
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Too much finance?

A large (and sound) financial system is essential for
development and growth
But…
Excessive growth of credit? (Arcand et al., 2012)

Misallocation of talents? (Philippon, 2013)
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How much is too much?

What is the optimal volume of stock trading?
Theoretically, several answers

from zero (rational expectation models without noise)
… to infinite (assets pricing models with dynamic hedging
in the absence of trading costs)!
Empirically, very few studies

Evidence suggest that investors trade too much (Odean,
1999), suggesting that trading activity is too high.
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Total value of stock traded worldwide

100000
(USD billion)
50000 0
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
World Bank (WDI)

Thomson Reuters (Monthly Market Share Reports)
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Author’s computation
Stocks Traded over GDP (in %) for selected

countries (1)
400
Data are from the World Bank (WDI,

historical stock exchanges only) from 1988
to 2009 and
300
from Thomson-Reuters (Monthly Market

Share Reports, all trading venues) since
(in %)
2010
200 100
0
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
France Germany
Italy Spain
Sweden United Kingdom
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countries (2)
500

400
to 2009 and
300
2010
(in %)
200 100
0
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
United States Canada

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countries (3)
800

to 2009 and
600

2010
(in %)
400 200
0
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Japan Hong Kong

Australia China
Korea, Dem. Rep. South Africa
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Financial Transaction Tax Around the

World: Past, Present and Future
PART II
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Securities transaction tax (STT)

STT exist for a very long time.
Since the introduction of the stamp duty at the

London Stock Exchange in 1694 (the oldest existing
tax in the UK), there has been nearly 50 STT
implemented in very different countries
Very few information on the taxing scheme
An inventory: Capelle-Blancard (2014) “Financial Transaction

Taxes Around the World” (Version 1.0).
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Around the World: Past, Present

and Future
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Stocks Traded over GDP (in %)

and Securities Transaction Tax
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Number of Countries with Securities

Transaction Tax: 1989-2015
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30
20
10
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015*
OECD Non-OECD
2015*: Expected
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Share of stock traded subject to

Securities Transaction Tax
100
80
60
(in %)
40
20
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
In % of the world's total value of stock traded

In % of the world's total value of stock traded (except the US)
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Empirical evidence: Financial

transaction taxes have no impact
PART III
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What is the impact?

Past evidence
Critical overview
Endogeneity problems
Reverse causality
Simultaneity and omitted variable biases
Impact on liquidity? Negative,

Impact on volatility? Inconclusive.
6: inconclusive or statistically insignificant results
4: increase for some subsamples
1: decrease
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Table 1. Previous studies on the impact of an increase1 in STT (or akin transaction costs)
Studies Sample Type of Control group Measure of Results for Measure of Results for
reform liquidity liquidity1 volatility volatility1
Roll (1989) 23 countries STT Countries Std .dev. of returns Not significant
(1987-89) without STT
Umlauf (1993) Sweden STT None or Variance of returns Inconclusive
(1984-86) NYSE-FTSE
Jones & Seguin (1997) U.S. Fixed Nasdaq Std .dev. of returns, Positive impact
(1974-1976) commissions absolute returns
Saporta & Kan (1997) G.B. STT ADRs Variance of returns, Not significant
(1963-86) GARCH
Hu (1998) H.-K., Japan, STT None Turnover Inconclusive Std .dev. of returns Inconclusive
Korea, Taiwan
(1977-93)
Baltagi et al. (2006) China STT None Volume Negative Variance of returns, Positive impact
(1997) impact GARCH
Chou & Wang (2006) Taiwan STT None Volume, bid-ask Negative Realized volatility, Not significant
(1999-2001) impact high-low range
Liu (2007) Japan STT ADRs Volume, Negative
(1989) Autocorrelation impact
Phylaktis & Aristidou Greece STT None GARCH Positive impact
(2007) (1998-00) for highly traded
stocks
Foucault et al. (2011) France Cost of Spot market Autocovariance, Negative Std .dev. of returns, Negative impact
(1998 2002) forward Amihud impact
trading illiquidity
Pomeranets & Weaver U.S. STT None or Nasdaq Holden spread, Negative Std .dev. of returns Not significant
(2012) (1932-81) Amihud impact
illiquidity
Liau et al. (2012) Taiwan (1998-07) STT None GARCH Positive impact
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Although reviewed studies analyze increases or decreases in transaction costs, the reported results must be interpreted as a reaction to an increase in STT.
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What is the impact?

New evidence
France and Italy: quasi-natural experiments

The contribution is threefold.
Reliable samples
Several “close” control groups
Suitable variables
Several dimensions of liquidity and volatility
Trustworthy methods
DiD, propensity matching, discontinuity analysis
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Table. Comparison between the French and the Italian FTT schemes
French Italian
Date of intro. August 2012 March 2013 September 2013
a) a)
Tax base Shares HFT Shares HFT Derivatives
French resident companies Italian resident companies
Market cap. > € 1 billion Market cap. > € 500 million
Tax rate 0.1% Fixed amount:
0.2% 0.01% 0.02%
0.2% (OTC) b) between
Net daily balance of Modified orders > Net daily balance of Modified orders > € 0.01875 and
settled transactions 80% total orders c) settled transactions 60% total orders c) € 200 d)
Territorial scope FTT applies

irrespective of FTT applies irrespective of the buyer’s and seller’s
the buyer’s and The transactions residence
seller’s covered by the
residence tax are those
FTT applies carried out a
irrespective of company
the place where operated in FTT applies irrespective of the place where the
the transaction France transaction is executed and settles
is executed and
settles
French Italian
Main exemptions Market making activities and transactions effected in the course of liquidity assistance
Transactions of newly issued shares (primary market)
Transactions between related parties, intra-group and restructuring transactions
Transfers of ownership taking place by inheritance or gift
Repurchases of securities by the issuer
Collateralized transactions, temporary transfers of securities (repos)
Transactions by clearing houses or central depositories
Employee saving scheme Pension funds subject to supervision under Directive
transactions 2003/41/EC and certain EU social security institutions
Exchange or conversion of bonds Transactions on qualifying “ethical” or “socially
into shares responsible” financial products
Transactions with the EU, ECB, Central Banks of EU
member states or institutions established by
International Agreements recognised by Italy
Revenue € 600 million
0 na na na
(2013)
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A difference-in-difference approach
A generalized version of the difference-in-difference (DiD) :
= + + + + , (1)
where 0Vit is1a measure
2
of market
3
liquidity or volatility for the
firm i at time t, is a firm dummy variable, is a time dummy
variable, is a dummy variable that is equal to 1 for large
French firms after the introduction of the FTT.
Firm-level clustering of the errors
For Italy:
= + + + + + + ,
(2)
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Treatment and control groups
FTT French Italy

Data Euronext 100 & Next 150 Borsa Italiana & Deutsche Börse
Groups Treated Control Treated Control
CAC+ AEX, BEL, LX MIB DAX & MDAX
Large caps
(#59) (#40) (#34) (#30)
FRA small ITA small
FRA (#49) ITA mid (#34)
Mid- and small caps
(#29) Foreign mid (#30) MDAX & SDAX
(#66) (#90)
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French large caps versus foreign large caps

(Euronext 100)
.4
.8
.3
.6
Density
Density
.2
.4
.1
.2
0
0
8 9 10 11 12 6 8 10 12 14
ln(market capitalization) ln(daily trading value)
FR_STT_100 noFR_noSTT_100 FR_STT_100 noFR_noSTT_100
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Italian large caps versus German

large caps
.4
.5
.4
.3
.3
Density
Density
.2
.2
.1
.1
0
6 8 10 12
ln(market capitalization) 12 14 16 18 20 22
ln(daily trading value)
MIB (treated) DAX & MDAX (control)
MIB (treated) DAX & MDAX (control)
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Correlation of returns between treatment and control groups
This table presents the coefficient of correlation of daily (portfolio) returns between treatment and control groups for
previous studies and for our sample. For our sample, Panel A (59 French large caps) and Panel B (40 non-French large
caps) compose the Euronext 100 index. Panel C (29 French large midcaps), Panel D (49 French small midcaps) and
Panel E (66 non-French midcaps) compose the Next 150 index.
Study Period Treatment group Control group Correlation

of returns
MSCI UK 19.54%
Umlauf (1993) 1980-1987 Sweden
MSCI US 8.83%
Pomeranets &
1971-1981 NYSE Nasdaq 85.93%
Weaver (2012)
MSCI Belgium 78.95%
MSCI France
MSCI Netherlands 91.03%
Euronext 100 Euronext 100
90.61%
Panel A (FR, STT) Panel B (noFR, noSTT)
Next 150
90.15%
Feb. 2012- Next 150 Panel D (FR, no STT)
This study
Jan. 2013 Panel C (FT, STT) Next 150
84.42%
Panel E (noFR, no STT)
Euronext 100
DAX 30 92.62%
Panel A (FR, STT)
Next 150
MDAX 50 83.42%
Panel C (FT, STT)
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Measuring market liquidity

Sarr and Lybek (2002), “number of measures must be considered
because there is no single theoretically correct and universally
accepted measure to determine a market’s degree of liquidity”.
Different aspects of market liquidity

Breath
Depth
Tightness
Resiliency
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Measuring market liquidity

Volume: Vi,t = Number of shares traded * closing price
for the stock
Turnover: Ti,t = Number of shares traded / total number

of shares available to ordinary investors
Bid-ask spread: Si,t = 2*(PAi,t–PBi,t) / (PAi,t+PBi,t) where PAi,t

and PBi,t are the asking price and the bid price
Liquidity Ratio: LRi,t = Vi,t / | Ri,t |
Price Reversal: PRi,t is minus the coefficient of a

regression of Ri,t on Vi,t–1*sign(Ri,t–1), controlling for Ri,t–1.
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Measuring market volatility

Engle and Gallo (2006): “the concept of volatility itself is somewhat
elusive, as many ways exist to measure it and hence to model it”.
Squared Return: SRi,t = (Ri,t)² where Ri,t= log(Pi,t / Pi,t–1)

Absolute Return: ARi,t = |Ri,t| √̟/2
Conditional variance: CVi,t is proxied with a GARCH(1,1)
model.
High-low range: HLRi,t = (log PHi,t – log PLi,t)² / 4 log(2) where
PHi,t and PLi,t are the highest price and the lowest price achieved
for the stock i on the day t.
Daily Price Amplitude: DPAi,t = 2*(PHi,t–PLi,t)/(PHi,t+PLi,t)

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Graphical analysis
Daily Volume (million euros)

Euronext 100
70
60
50
40
30
20
01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT noFR_noSTT
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Daily Turnover (%) Daily Turnover (%)

Euronext 100 Next 150
.007
.01
.006
.008
.005
.006
.004
.004
.003
.002
.002
01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13

01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
FR_STT noFR_noSTT noFR_noSTT
Bid-Ask Spread (%) Bid-Ask Spread (%)

.16
.8
.14
.6
.12
.4
.1
.2
.08
01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13

01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
Liquidity Ratio Liquidity Ratio

50000 100000150000200000250000300000
10000 20000 30000 40000

0
01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13

01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
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Absolute Return Absolute Return

4
2.5
3
2
2
1.5
1
1
01 Feb 1 2 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
Conditional Variance Conditional Variance

5
14
12
4
10
8
3
6
4
2
01 Feb 1 2 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13

01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
Daily Price Amplitude (%) Daily Price Amplitude (%)

3.5
5
3
4
2.5
3
2
2
1.5
01 Feb 1 2 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13

01 Feb 12 02 Jun 12 02 Oct 12 01 Feb 13
FR_STT FR_noSTT
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Table 4. The impact of the French STT on stock market liquidity
Model (1) (2) (3)

Sample Euronext 100 Next 150
Nb. of firms FR STT (59) FR STT (29) FR STT (29)
no FR, no STT (40) FR, no STT (49) no FR, no STT (66)
ln(Volumei,t)
STT -0.2158*** -0.2671*** -0.3395***
(s.e.) (0.0456) (0.0834) (0.0900)
Nb. of obs. 25016 19802 24125
adj. R2 0.897 0.827 0.835
Turnoveri,t (%) × 100
STT -0.1275*** -0.1460 -0.1907**
(s.e.) (0.0245) (0.1120) (0.0791)
Nb. of obs. 24975 19802 24126
adj. R2 0.447 0.279 0.256
Bid-ask spreadi,t (%)
STT 0.0232*** 0.0530** -0.0186
(s.e.) (0.0071) (0.0254) (0.0830)
Nb. of obs. 24838 19762 24040
adj. R2 0.272 0.497 0.540
Liquidity ratioi,t × 1,000
STT -1.4628 -3.7223 -5.2771**
(s.e.) (10.5141) (2.4368) (2.4889)
Nb. of obs. 24800 19118 23351
adj. R2 0.099 0.058 0.057
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Table 5. The impact of the French STT on stock market volatility
Model (1) (2) (3)

Sample Euronext 100 Next 150
Nb. of firms FR STT (59) FR STT (29) FR STT (29)
no FR, no STT (40) FR, no STT (49) no FR, no STT (66)
Squared returni,t (%)
STT -0.1795 0.8566 -1.1502
(s.e.) (0.3904) (1.3615) (0.9570)
Nb. of obs. 25018 19812 24130
adj. R2 0.165 0.034 0.063
Absolute returni,t (%)
STT -0.0341 -0.0450 -0.0994
(s.e.) (0.0767) (0.1182) (0.0954)
Nb. of obs. 25018 19812 24130
adj. R2 0.296 0.168 0.190
Conditional variancei,t
STT 0.0341 0.0141 -0.4725
(s.e.) (0.4568) (1.0874) (0.8709)
Nb. of obs. 25146 19812 24130
adj. R2 0.589 0.281 0.362
High-low rangei,t
STT 0.0000 0.0001 -0.0001
(s.e.) (0.0000) (0.0001) (0.0001)
Nb. of obs. 25016 19802 24126
adj. R2 0.276 0.111 0.161
Price amplitudei,t (%)
STT 0.0091 -0.0130 -0.1304
(s.e.) (0.1006) (0.1329) (0.1445)
Nb. of obs. 25016 19802 24126
adj. R2 0.441 0.329 0.348
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***
, , indicates a coefficient statistically different from zero at the 10%, 5%, 1% level, respectively.
Summary of the impact assessments of

the French STT
Authors Period Data Sample Methodology

Becchetti, Source: Bloomberg Sample: 106 French firms
90 trading days
Ferrari & Non parametric individual tests,
surrounding the Type: daily data (Paris Control group: 220 French Difference-in-difference
Trenta,
event Bourse) midcaps and small-caps
(2013)
Source: Thomson
Colliard & 4 months Sample: 90 French firms Difference-in-difference
Reuters
Hoffman surrounding the Control group: 28 Dutch Sub-samples: 20 stocks above and 20
event Type: tick data
(2013) firms + 20 French midcaps stocks below the threshold
(Euronext)
Source: Thomson Sample: 36 French blue
Haferkorn & 20 or 80 trading Difference-in-difference
Reuters chips
Zimmerman days surrounding Sub-samples: clusters by market
the event Type: tick data Control group: 30 German
n (2013) capitalization and price level
(Euronext & Chi-X) blue chips
Meyer, Sample: 94 French firms
80 trading days Source: Thomson Difference-in-difference, Matching
Wagener, &
surrounding the Reuters Type: tick data Control group: 99 UK
Weinhardt
event (Euronext & Chi-X) Sub-samples: size effect
(2013) firms
Source: Thomson
Capelle- Reuters Sample: 88 French firms Difference-in-difference, Propensity score
Blancard & 1 year surrounding
Havrylchyk the event Type: daily data Control group: 106 foreign matching
(2013) (Euronext & Deutsche firms + 49 French midcaps Robustness and sub-samples: size effect
Boerse)
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Traded Number Turnove Freq. of Spread Depth Low- Price Liquidity Price
value of trades r quotes latency impact ratio reversal
Becchetti,
Not Not
Ferrari & Trenta,
significant significant
(2013)
Colliard & Not
Decrease Decrease Decrease
Hoffman (2013) significant
Haferkorn &
Not
Zimmermann Decrease Increase Decrease
significant
(2013)
Meyer, Wagener,
Not Not
& Weinhardt Decrease Decrease Decrease
significant significant
(2013)
Capelle-
Blancard & Not Not
Decrease Decrease
Havrylchyk significant significant
(2013)
Standard Squared Conditional Daily high- Realized Price

deviation returns variance low range volatility dispersion
Becchetti, Ferrari &

Decrease
Trenta, (2013)
Colliard & Hoffman
Not significant
(2013)
Haferkorn &
Zimmermann Not significant Not significant Not significant Increase
(2013)
Capelle-Blancard &
Not significant Not significant Not significant
Havrylchyk (2013)
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Figure B. Historical trading volume at the “Bourse de Paris”

Panel A. Annual turnover
2 500 000
€ million
2 000 000
1 500 000
1 000 000
500 000
0
1969
1971
1973
1975
1977
1979
1981
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2011
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Figure B. Historical trading volume at the “Bourse de Paris”

Panel B. Annual variation
150%
100%
50%
0%
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
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The impact of the IOB on stock market liquidity and volatility

This table presents difference-in-difference econometric tests. The sample contains the stocks included in the
Euronext 100 (excluding 7 firms) over the 2007-2008 period. ln(Trading valuei,t) = ln(Number of shares traded for the
stock i on day t * Pi,t) where Pi,t is the closing price for the stock i on the day t; number of shares is expressed in
thousands. Estimated bid-ask spread, ESi,t = 2*(eα – 1) / *(1 + eα) with α, β and γ defined by Corwin and Schultz (2012)
and based on the highest and the lowest prices over one-day and two-day intervals. Liquidity Ratioi,t = Vi,t / | Ri,t | with
Ri,t = 100*log(Pi,t / Pi,t–1), for the stock i on the day t, respectively; liquidity ratio is expressed in thousands euros of
trades for a price change of 1%. Absolute Returni,t = |Ri,t| √π/2. Conditional variancei,t is estimated with a GARCH(1,1).
High-low range, HLRi,t = (log PHi,t – log PLi,t)² / 4 log(2) where PHi,t and PLi,t are the highest price and the lowest price
achieved for the stock i on the day t, respectively. Robust standard errors are clustered at the firm level and are
presented in parentheses.
Liquidity ln(Trading valuei,t) Estimated Liquidity Ratioi,t

bid-ask spreadi,t
IOB –0.0798 0.0001 0.26e+04

(s.e.) (0.0544) (0.0003) (2.66e+04)
Nb. of obs. 47,151 46,965 47,151
adj. R2 0.882 0.185 0.080
Volatility Absolute returni,t (%) Conditional variancei,t High-low rangei,t
IOB 0.0969 –0.0721 0.0001

(s.e.) (0.1292) (0.3510) (0.0001)
Nb. of obs. 47,151 45,123 47,151
adj. R2 0.399 0.496 0.336
* ** ***
, , indicates a coefficient statistically different from zero at the 10%, 5%, 1% level, respectively.
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Table 6. The impact of the Italian OTR, STT and FTT on stock market liquidity
This table presents difference-in-difference econometric tests. The sample period extends from 2011 to 2013 (821
days). The sample period extends from 2011 to 2013 (821 days). All the data are daily. OTR is a dummy variable = 1
from April 2012 if the firm is subject to the OTR and 0 otherwise. STT is a dummy variable = 1 from March 2013 if the
firm is subject to the STT and 0 otherwise. FTT is a dummy variable = 1 from September 2013 if the firm is subject to
the FTT and 0 otherwise. Pi,t is the closing price for the stock i on the day t. NBSTi,t is the number of shares traded for a
stock i on the day t. NOSHi,t is the total number of ordinary shares for the stock i on day t. NOSHFFi,t is the percentage
of shares available to ordinary investors for the stock i on day t. Trading valuei,t = NBSTi,t * Pi,t. Turnover ratioi,t =
100*NBSTi,t / (NOSHi,t * NOSHFFi,t). Bid-ask spreadi,t is the average difference between the asking price and the bid
price offered for the stock i on day t, in percent. Liquidity ratioi,t = Vi,t / | Ri,t |; liquidity ratio is expressed in million
euros of trades for a price change of 1%. Time and firms dummies are included but not reported. Standard errors are
clustered at the firm level and are presented in parentheses.
Sample All firms Large caps Mid- and small caps

(No. firms) (100 IT + 120 GE) (36 IT + 74 GE) (64 IT + 90)
ln(Trading valuei,t)
OTR 0.0008 0.0407 –0.2682***
(s.e.) (0.0791) (0.0754) (0.0858)
STT –0.1096 –0.0428 –0.0662
(s.e.) (0.0806) (0.0555) (0.1009)
FTT 0.0020 0.1911*** 0.1435*
(s.e.) (0.0548) (0.0527) (0.0827)
Nb. of obs. 167,420 82,188 91,320
adj. R2 0.906 0.876 0.798
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Table 7. The impact of the Italian STT on stock market volatility

This table presents difference-in-difference econometric tests. The sample period extends from 2011 to 2013 (821
days). The sample period extends from 2011 to 2013 (821 days). All the data are daily. OTR is a dummy variable = 1
from April 2012 if the firm is subject to the OTR and 0 otherwise. STT is a dummy variable = 1 from March 2013 if the
firm is subject to the STT and 0 otherwise. FTT is a dummy variable = 1 from September 2013 if the firm is subject to
the FTT and 0 otherwise. Pi,t is the closing price for the stock i on the day t. Squared returni,t, SRi,t = (Ri,t)² with Ri,t=
100*log(Pi,t / Pi,t–1). Conditional variancei,t is estimated with a GARCH(1,1). High-low range, HLRi,t = (log PHi,t – log
PLi,t)² / 4 log(2) where PHi,t and PLi,t are the highest price and the lowest price achieved for the stock i on the day t,
respectively. Time and firms dummies are included but not reported. Standard errors are clustered at the firm level and
are presented in parentheses.
Treated group (No. firms) MIB (34) ITA (30)
Control group (No. firms) DAX+MDAX (74) MDAX+SDAX (90)

Filters Mk cap. > €100 bl.; Trading > €100 bl.
Squared returni,t (%)
OTR 2.3206*** 5.7382*
(s.e.) (0.6621) (3.2707)
STT –1.7423*** –5.4422
(s.e.) (0.5569) (3.9035)
FTT –0.6891* –0.1091
(s.e.) (0.3888) (0.2850)
Nb. of obs. 82,080 91,200
adj. R2 0.112 0.027
Conditional variancei,t
OTR 1.2601*** 1.5374***
(s.e.) (0.4206) (0.4168)
STT –0.8860*** –1.2802***
(s.e.) (0.2649) (0.3865)
FTT –0.4425** –0.3037
(s.e.) (0.1925) (0.1986)
Nb. of obs. 82,163 91,254
52 adj. R2 0.567 0.470
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Several robustness tests

Dynamic effects
Propensity score matching (market capitalization and turnover)
Nearest neighbor matching
Kernel matching
Discontinuity analysis
Others control groups
The impact on derivative market (in progress)
A global assessment
Only countries with a stock market capitalization >
US$2 billion.
=> 44 countries
The sample represents (in 2008)

86.5% of the world’s GDP
95.8% of the world’s stock market capitalization
98.9% of the world’s total value of stock traded.
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Figure 5. Heteregoneity across countries and over time

The sample is restricted to 44 countries with market capitalization > US$2 billion.
Data are from the World Bank (WDI, historical stock exchanges only)
A. Stocks Traded over GDP
800
800
600
600
400
400
200
200
0
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
AUS
AUT
BHR
BRA
CAN
CHL
CHN
DNK
DEU
IRL
LUX
NLD
PHL
PRT
CHE
ARE
USA
ARG
BEL
CZE
FRA
GRC
HKG
IND
ISR
JPN
JOR
KWT
MYS
MEX
NZL
NOR
PAK
QAT
SAU
SGP
ZAF
KOR
ESP
SWE
THA
GBR
FIN
ITA
Country (alphabetical order) Year
Value traded/GDP mean Value traded/GDP mean
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Figure 5. Heteregoneity across countries and over time

The sample is restricted to 44 countries with market capitalization > US$2 billion.
Data are from the World Bank (WDI, historical stock exchanges only)
B. Turnover Ratio
500
500
400
400
300
300
200
200
100
100
0
0
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
AUS
BHR
BRA
CAN
CHN
DEU
CHL
DNK
LUX
NLD
PHL
CHE
ARE
USA
ARG
AUT
ISR
JPN
JOR
BEL
CZE
FRA
GRC
HKG
IND
IRL
KWT
MYS
MEX
NOR
NZL
PAK
PRT
QAT
SAU
SGP
ZAF
KOR
ESP
SWE
THA
GBR
FIN
ITA
Country (alphabetical order) Year
Turnover Ratio mean Turnover Ratio mean
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The empirical drivers of stock trading

and the impact of STT
Panel data econometric model with country fixed-
effects models
The fixed-effects model controls for all time-invariant
differences between the individuals, so the estimated
coefficients of the fixed-effects models are presumed to not
be biased because of omitted time-invariant characteristics.
ST_GDPj,t = β’ Xj,t + δ STTj,t + αj + uj,t
TRj,t = β’ Xj,t + δ STTj,t + αj + uj,t
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Which factors?
Financial Depth
e.g. Domestic credit to private sector
Efficiency and banks’ market structure
e.g. Lending-deposit spread
Financial openness
e.g. Loans from nonresident banks
Stability
e.g. banking crisis, stock market volatility
Economics
Legal origin
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Preliminary diagnostics
Heteroskedasticity
Cross-sectional dependence (contemporaneous correlation)
First-order serial correlation
4 different model regressions with alternative standard error
estimates :
1. A simple fixed-effect regression model;
2. A fixed-effect regression model with heteroscedasticity consistent
(or “Huber-White”) standard errors;
3. A fixed-effect regression model with bootstrap inference;
4. A fixed-effect regression model with the cross-sectional dependence
consistent Driscoll-Kraay estimator.
The preferred estimator is the last one, which provides a
nonparametric covariance matrix estimator which produces
heteroscedasticity consistent standard errors that are robust to
very general forms of spatial and temporal dependence. Indeed,
given the high level of stock market contagion and
interdependences, cross-sectional dependence is very likely.
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Table A. General diagnostic tests for panel data models

The dataset contains annual data from 1988 to 2011 for a panel of 44 countries with market capitalization larger than
US$2 billion. Stock traded/GDP is the total value of stock traded over GDP (%) and the turnover ratio is defined as the
ratio of annual traded value to the year-end market capitalization. Data are from the World Bank (WDI and GFDD).
Stock traded/ Turnover

GDP ratio
Modified Wald test for groupwise heteroskedasticity
H0: σi² = σ² for all i
Chi2 (38) 59,842.51 48,922.84
Prob. > chi2 0.0000 0.0000
Breusch-Pagan LM test of independence
Chi2(528) 2,558.229 2,475.986
Prob. > chi2 0.0000 0.0000
Pasaran cross-sectional dependence test
Z-test 21.035 11.913
Prob. > Z-test 0.0000 0.0000
Average absolute value of the off-diagonal elements 0.391 0.326
Wooldridge test for autocorrelation in panel data
H0: no first-order autocorrelation
F(1, 43) 94.097 40.897
Prob. > F 0.0000 0.0000
Hausman test (according to Wooldridge, the auxiliary regression is estimated with
Driscoll and Kraay standard errors)
F(11, 23) 66.96 73.58
60 Prob. > F 0.0000 0.0000
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The empirical determinants of stock trading

This table provides the coefficient estimates from the regression models in (Eq. 1) and (Eq. 2) estimated by fixed effects
(within) regression. The standard errors (in parentheses) are obtained from the covariance matrix estimators in the
column headings. The dataset contains annual data from 1988 to 2011 for a panel of 44 countries with market
capitalization larger than US$2 billion. The dependent variable in the regression is the total value of stocks traded over
GDP (%) in panel A and the turnover ratio (defined as the ratio of annual traded value to the year-end market
capitalization) in Panel B. Data are from the World Bank (WDI and GFDD).
Panel A (1) (2) (3) (4)

Stocks traded over GDP (%) Fixed-effects Robust Bootstrap Driscoll-Kraay
Credit/GDP ns ns ns ns
Nb listed firms / Pop. 1.1874*** ns ns 1.1874*
Foreign claim/GDP ns ns ns ns
Bank Spread ns ns ns ns
Bank crisis (dummy) –18.0693* –18.0693* –18.0693* –18.0693**
Credit/deposits –0.2877** ns ns ns
Stock Market Volatility 0.9881*** 0.9881* 0.9881* 0.9881**
STT (dummy) ns ns ns ns
GDP (ln) ns ns ns ns
GDP (ln) * legal origin UK ns ns ns ns
GDP/cap. 0.0070*** ns ns 0.0070**
N 477 477 477 477
adj. R2 0.232 0.293 0.232
*
p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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s.e. are not reported here to save space. The trend and the constant are also omitted.
The empirical determinants of stock trading (continued)

(within) regression. The standard errors (in parentheses) are obtained from the covariance matrix estimators in the
column headings. The dataset contains annual data from 1988 to 2011 for a panel of 44 countries with market
capitalization larger than US$2 billion. The dependent variable in the regression is the total value of stocks traded over
GDP (%) in panel A and the turnover ratio (defined as the ratio of annual traded value to the year-end market
capitalization) in Panel B. Data are from the World Bank (WDI and GFDD).
Panel B (1) (2) (3) (4)

Turnover ratio (%) Fixed-effects Robust Bootstrap Driscoll-Kraay
Nb listed firms / Pop. ns ns ns ns
Bank crisis (dummy) –16.0990** –16.0990** –16.0990** –16.0990***
Credit/deposits ns ns ns ns
Stock Market Volatility 1.1997*** 1.1997** 1.1997*** 1.1997***
STT (dummy) ns ns ns ns
GDP (ln) * legal origin UK ns ns ns ns
GDP/cap. 0.0027*** ns ns 0.0027**
N 471 471 471 471
adj. R2 0.033 0.111 0.033
*
p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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The empirical determinants of stock trading with first differences

(within) regression with first-differences. The standard errors (in parentheses) are obtained from the covariance matrix
estimators in the column headings. The dataset contains annual data from 1988 to 2011 for a panel of 44 countries with
market capitalization larger than US$2 billion. The dependent variable in the regression is the total value of stocks
traded over GDP (%) in panel A and the turnover ratio (defined as the ratio of annual traded value to the year-end
market capitalization) in Panel B. Data are from the World Bank (WDI and GFDD).
Panel A (1) (2) (3) (4)

Stocks traded over GDP (%) Fixed-effects Robust Bootstrap Driscoll-Kraay
Stocks traded/GDP 0.0028*** 0.0028** ns 0.0028**
Bank crisis (dummy) ns ns ns ns
Credit/deposits 0.0053** ns ns ns
Stock Market Volatility ns ns ns ns
ΔSTT (dummy) –0.5898* ns ns ns
GDP (ln) –0.7032*** –0.7032** –0.7032** –0.7032*
ΔGDP (ln) ns 0.6890** 0.6890** 0.6890*
GDP/cap. ns ns ns ns
N 471 471 471 471
adj. R2 0.008 0.088 0.008
*
p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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The empirical determinants of stock trading with first differences (cont’d)

(within) regression with first-differences. The standard errors (in parentheses) are obtained from the covariance matrix
estimators in the column headings. The dataset contains annual data from 1988 to 2011 for a panel of 44 countries with
market capitalization larger than US$2 billion. The dependent variable in the regression is the total value of stocks
traded over GDP (%) in panel A and the turnover ratio (defined as the ratio of annual traded value to the year-end
market capitalization) in Panel B. Data are from the World Bank (WDI and GFDD).
Panel B (1) (2) (3) (4)

Turnover ratio (%) Fixed-effects Robust Bootstrap Driscoll-Kraay
Turnover Ratio 0.3672*** 0.3672** 0.3672** 0.3672***
Credit/GDP ns ns ns –0.1570*
Bank crisis (dummy) ns ns ns ns
Credit/deposits ns ns ns ns
Stock Market Volatility –0.8441*** –0.8441*** –0.8441*** –0.8441***
ΔSTT (dummy) ns ns ns ns
ΔGDP (ln) ns ns ns ns
GDP/cap. ns ns ns ns
N 464 464 464 464
adj. R2 0.088 0.163 0.088
*
p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
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Revenues from FTT
PART IV
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Revenues from FTT (Europe)

% Total fiscal revenue
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% Total fiscal revenue

Revenues from FTT (Asia+SA)
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Figure A. Revenues from the French FTT

1 000 0,25%
FTT revenue (€ million), lhs
900 As % of total tax revenue, rhs
800 0,20%
700
600 0,15%
500
400 0,10%
300
200 0,05%
100
0 0,00%
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
Source: OECD. 1970-2007: “Impôt de Bourse”; 2012-2013 (expected): “Taxe sur les transactions financières”
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French FTT – Fiscal revenue
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Effective (implicit) FTT rate
FTT revenue
Value of share FTT revenue
2013 (% Total fiscal Implicit FTT rate
trading (€ million) (€ million)
revenue)
France 2 243 180 697 0,07% 0,03%
Royaume-Uni 3 622 338 3 656 0,50% 0,10%
Irlande 360 902 251 0,66% 0,07%
Suisse 1 106 411 1 481 1,06% 0,13%
Taiwan 473 307 2 286 4,04% 0,48%
Corée 777 792 2 113 0,89% 0,27%
Hong Kong 1 176 062 2 492 6,39% 0,21%
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Conclusion
PART V
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To sum up (1)
These papers analyse the impact of STT on market volatility. This

question is at the heart of economic policy debate about the use of
taxes to curb speculative activity and render financial markets more
stable. The opponents argue that additional taxation of financial
transactions will hurt market liquidity, thus, making markets even
more volatile.
I studied the impact of the STT/FTT introduced in France (2012)
and Italy (2013). Unlike previous studies, I isolate the effect of the
tax due to the unique design of these taxes, which are levied only
on large firms
Diff-in-diff, Propensity Score Matching, Regression Discontinuity
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To sump up (2)
Overall, results show that the introduction of the STT/FTT has

reduced trading value and volume of stocks
At the same time, there is no effect on theoretically based

measures of liquidity, such as price impact or price reversal.
As to volatility measures, the results are insignificant.
At the end, our results are very much in line with Bloomfield,
O’Hara and Saar (2009) who conclude that “[STT] reduces
activity by noise and informed traders roughly equally (...), and
perhaps as a result it does not alter bid-ask spreads or other price
impact measures of liquidity, and has only a weak effect (if at all)
on the informational efficiency of prices”.
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Conclusion
Neither a panacea nor a “madness”
There is no significant effect on market volatility and

even liquidity
The design of the FTT is crucial
Overall, FTT seems more a revenue-focused tax than a

corrective tax
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La taxation des transactions

“And then there’s the idea of taxing financial transactions, which

In the top 250 for the category “Politics/Economics”

In the top 10 if we restrict the list to economic issues

European Parliament Eurobarometer (EB77.2)

66% of Europeans are in favour of the principle of

I. Stock prices are not open-ended. Stock trading seems

Stock prices are not open-ended.

The growth of stock trading in the US

1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

952 quotes per minute were disseminated

Stock traded/GDP is equal to…

This growth is even more pronounced for high-

Table 1. Total value of stock traded

Too much finance?

Excessive growth of credit? (Arcand et al., 2012)

How much is too much?

Theoretically, several answers

Empirically, very few studies

Total value of stock traded worldwide

World Bank (WDI)

Stocks Traded over GDP (in %) for selected

Data are from the World Bank (WDI,

from Thomson-Reuters (Monthly Market

Stocks Traded over GDP (in %) for selected

Data are from the World Bank (WDI,

United States Canada

Stocks Traded over GDP (in %) for selected

Data are from the World Bank (WDI,

from Thomson-Reuters (Monthly Market

Japan Hong Kong

Financial Transaction Tax Around the

Securities transaction tax (STT)

Since the introduction of the stamp duty at the

Very few information on the taxing scheme

An inventory: Capelle-Blancard (2014) “Financial Transaction

Around the World: Past, Present

Stocks Traded over GDP (in %)

Number of Countries with Securities

Share of stock traded subject to

In % of the world's total value of stock traded

Empirical evidence: Financial

What is the impact?

Impact on liquidity? Negative,

What is the impact?

France and Italy: quasi-natural experiments

Territorial scope FTT applies

Treatment and control groups

FTT French Italy

French large caps versus foreign large caps

FR_STT_100 noFR_noSTT_100 FR_STT_100 noFR_noSTT_100

Italian large caps versus German

Correlation of returns between treatment and control groups

Study Period Treatment group Control group Correlation

Measuring market liquidity

Different aspects of market liquidity

Measuring market liquidity

Turnover: Ti,t = Number of shares traded / total number

Bid-ask spread: Si,t = 2*(PAi,t–PBi,t) / (PAi,t+PBi,t) where PAi,t

Liquidity Ratio: LRi,t = Vi,t / | Ri,t |

Price Reversal: PRi,t is minus the coefficient of a

Measuring market volatility