The Total Cost of Trading Belgian Shares: Brussels versus London
Hans Degryse
Journal of Banking and Finance,
No. 9,
1999
Abstract
Since 1990, London’s SEAQ International (SEAQ-I) has attracted considerable trading volume in Belgian equities. This paper investigates competition between the Brussels CATS market and London’s SEAQ-I. Toward this end, we gathered extensive limit order book data as well as transactions and quotation information. With regard to liquidity (indirect costs), measured by the quoted and effective bid–ask spread, the paper concludes that CATS outperforms SEAQ International for both measures. The effective spread is of course substantially smaller than the quoted spread, with the CATS effective spread showing a U-shaped form. This paper, unique in employing an extensive data set that includes all hidden orders and the whole limit order book, produces results in line with the different market microstructure models. Total trading costs on CATS are lower (higher) for small (large) trade sizes.
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Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization
L. Ebrill, Reint E. Gropp, J. Stotsky
IMF Occasional Papers, No. 180,
No. 180,
1999
Abstract
In recent decades many countries have dismantled trade barriers and opened their economies to international competition. Trade liberalization is seen to promote economic efficiency, international competitiveness, and an expansion of trade, perhaps especially in imperfectly competitive markets. Yet despite this progress in trade liberalization, as evidenced by the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 and the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, trade barriers are still widespread. Some economies and some sectors (e.g., agriculture in many industrial countries) remain relatively insulated from the global economy by a variety of nontariff and tariff barriers, even as import substitution continues to lose ground as a strategy for economic development.
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Trade structure and trade liberalization. The emerging pattern between the EU and transition economies
Hubert Gabrisch, Maria Luigia Segnana
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 108,
1999
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Development problems and policies at the German border with Poland; Regional aspects of trade and investment
Franz Barjak, Gerhard Heimpold
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 101,
1999
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The Value of Trade – an Analysis within the Context of Industrial Organization Theory and Institutional Economics
Ulrich Blum
Distribution im Aufbruch,
1999
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Environmental protection and competitiveness; New foreign trade and location theoretical approaches and empirical evidence
Jens Horbach, Thomas Meißner, Jacqueline Rothfels
Schriften des IWH,
No. 2,
1998
Abstract
Die Autoren des vorliegenden Forschungsberichtes haben sich unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Jens Harbach (Fachhochschule Anhalt) mit der Frage beschäftigt, ob Umweltchutzmaßnalnnen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Volkswirtschaft beeinträchtigen. Der Bericht will anhand neuerer theoretischer und empirischer Erkenntnisse die Rolle der Umweltpolitik bei Standortproblemen beleuchten. Ausgangspunkt für eine mögliche ungünstige Rolle des Umweltschutzes ist dabei die These, daß eine strenge Umweltpolitik in einem Land dort die Produktionskosten erhöht. Dadurch werden vor allem die inländischen Unternehmen benachteiligt, die hohe Umweltschutzinvestitionen tätigen müssen. Auf der Basis dieser Argumentation sagt die klassische Außenhandelstheorie Wettbewerbsnachteile durch Umweltschutz voraus.
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IWH Construction Industry Survey October 1998: Finishing trade now also affected by drop of demand
Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 15,
1998
Abstract
Insbesondere die Ausbauunternehmen signalisierten zum Jahresende 1998 eine deutliche Verschlechterung der Situation gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Dies waren die Vorboten des Auslaufens der günstigen steuerlichen Abschreibungsbedingungen im Bereich der Modernisierung und Sanierung von Wohnbauten zum Jahresende 1998. Alles in allem deutete sich aus der Gesamtsituation an, dass das ostdeutsche Baugewerbe im Jahr 1998 den bis dahin stärksten Nachfrageeinbruch erfahren wird.
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Determinants of OECD foreign trade growth at the beginning of the 1990s; an international industry analysis
Klaus Holst
Forschungsreihe,
No. 7,
1998
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Capital movements, migration and trade considering transaction costs
Michael Seifert
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 80,
1998
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Trade deficits in Poland and Estonia: Capital imports versus import penetration and the sustainability of current account deficits
Johannes Stephan
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 82,
1998
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