FIN 556
Fall 2025 Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10
Credit: 4 hours.
Introduces the modern theoretical, empirical and institutional foundations of market microstructure and trading activity, with an emphasis on applications to algorithmic and high-frequency trading. The first part of the course addresses market microstructure and the algorithmic implementation of traditional microstructure-inspired tasks such as minimizing execution costs. The second part of the course proceeds to examine actual algorithmic strategies, and ultimately high-frequency trading. Recurrent themes throughout the course will be the use of economic theory to simplify computationally challenging problems, and the use of theory-driven structural models to construct more robust trading algorithms.
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76745
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Lecture-Discussion
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L1
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5:30PM
-8:20PM
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T
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1100 Wymer Hall
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Lariviere, D
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