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ON LOW-FREQUENCY ESTIMATION OF BID-ASK SPREAD IN THE STOCK MARKET
ON LOW-FREQUENCY ESTIMATION OF BID-ASK SPREAD IN THE STOCK MARKET

Author(s): Marek Andrzej Kociński
Subject(s): Economy, Methodology and research technology, Financial Markets
Published by: Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: high-frequency data; low-frequency data; Roll estimator; Corwin-Schultz estimator;

Summary/Abstract: In the article two popular low-frequency methods od bid-ask spread estimation are presented and applied to the stocks quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE): the Roll method [Roll 1984] and CorwinSchultz method [Corwin and Schultz 2012]. The widely available data on average spreads published by WSE are used as benchmark and proxy of information, usually received from difficult to access and limited high frequency financial data.

  • Issue Year: XV/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 135-143
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English