A high-frequency analysis of price resolution and pricing barriers in equities on the adoption of a new currency

Christos Alexakis, Mark Cummins, Michael Dowling, Vasileios Pappas

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Abstract

We use ultra high frequency (trade by trade) data to demonstrate that equity price clustering and pricing predictability around psychologically important prices in Greece switches away from drachma-focused with the introduction of the euro, but does not immediately switch to euroclustering. The change in trader price focus around the euro introduction addresses an open debate in the clustering literature on whether the presence of clustering is a bias related to the current prices or anchoring to past prices. Our findings of a decline in drachma clustering, but lack of switch to euro effects supports the case for clustering being a trading feature that is slow to transfer to new pricing regimes. A key advantage of the ultra high frequency dataset is we are
also able to demonstrate the presence of psychological pricing barriers related to each currency that are not detectable in daily data.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3949-3965
Number of pages17
JournalApplied Economics
Volume50
Issue number36
Early online date23 Jan 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Clustering
  • euro introduction
  • psychological barriers
  • transaction data

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics and Econometrics

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