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Market mechanism refinement on a continuous limit order book venue: a case study

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This letter describes an exercise in market mechanism refinement that was recently undertaken on a major electronic trading venue: Thomson Reuters Matching. The exercise sought to address problems associated with continuous markets that have been described in recent literature. To this end, the design of the refinement is described, and its consequences are discussed.

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      cover image ACM SIGecom Exchanges
      ACM SIGecom Exchanges  Volume 16, Issue 1
      August 2017
      77 pages
      EISSN:1551-9031
      DOI:10.1145/3144722
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