Market Impact and Alpha

January 13, 2017 - Price impact caused by an aggressive order is a staple of market microstructure research. The simplest measure of market impact is to look at changes in midpoint price following a trade at the bid or the ask. The price motion should be due both to the immediate liquidity consumption and to the information transmitted by the order to other traders in the market.

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