US Cross-Listing and Domestic High-Frequency Trading: Evidence From Canadian Stocks

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2023-03-24
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Dodd, Olga
Frijns, Bart
Indriawan, Ivan
Pascual, Roberto
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Elsevier BV
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We find that US cross-listing of Canadian stocks enhances domestic high-frequency trading (HFT) activity in the form of both opportunistic trading and market-making. First, US cross-listing boosts HFT low-latency cross-border arbitrage. This highly correlated HFT arbitrage activity across markets enhances stock price efficiency by correcting mispricing. Second, US cross-listing leads to an increase in news trading activity by high-frequency traders around US public macro-news releases. Finally, cross-listing increases a stock’s reliance on high-frequency market makers to provide liquidity. Yet, we find no evidence of higher fragility in liquidity supply after cross-listing.

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38 Economics , 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment , 3801 Applied Economics , 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services , 1402 Applied Economics , 1403 Econometrics , 1502 Banking, Finance and Investment , Finance , 3502 Banking, finance and investment , 3801 Applied economics
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Journal of Empirical Finance, ISSN: 0927-5398 (Print), Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2023.03.012
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