Microstructure of Financial Markets - WMMF9M30

1. The financial market organization
1.1 Financial markets : functions and main participants
1.2. Financial markets characteristics : fixing or continuous markets, market-makers markets, order-
driven markets, regulation,….
1.3. Financial markets effectiveness

2. Asset pricing
2.1. Asset pricing in a context of information asymmetry : rational expectations models with strategic vs. non strategic agents
2.2. Asset pricing and competitiveness: the position effect

3. Liquidity and transaction costs
3.1 The bid-ask spread and its different parts
3.2. The liquidity and the market performance
3.3. The transaction costs

Finance courses in 2nd year of the school

written exam of 1h30 without any document (E1, represents 50% of the final grade) and project (P, represents 50% of the final grade)

• • MCC en présentiel **
    Examen écrit (E, représente 50% de la note finale) et note de contrôle continu(CC, représente 50% de la note finale)
    N1=50%*E+50%*CC
    N2=E2
    E = examen écrit de 1h30 sans document
    CC = contrôle continu (projet à rendre)
    E2 = examen écrit ou oral (session de rattrapage)

• • MCC en distanciel **
    N1=CC
    N2=E2
    CC = contrôle continu (projet à rendre)
    E2 = examen écrit à distance ou oral en distanciel (session de rattrapage)

The course exists in the following branches:

• Curriculum - Financial Engineering - Semester 9

Course ID : WMMF9M30
Course language(s):

The course is attached to the following structures:

• Team Finance.

You can find this course among all other courses.

Microstructure des marchés financiers – B. Biais, T. Foucault, P. Hillion (PUF, 1997)
La Microstructure des marchés d’actions – A. Minguet (Economica, 2003)
Market Microstructure Theory – M. O’Hara (Blackwell Business, 2004)
The Microstructure of Financial Markets – F. De Jong and B. Rindi (Cambridge 2009)
Equity Markets in Action – R. A. Schwartz and R. Francioni (Wiley Trading, 2004)