Liquidity Markets and Trading in Action

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics macroeconomics finance and information systems as they relate to trading liquidity and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market trading TraderEx that enables students to implement trading decisions in different market scenarios and structures. Addressing these topics shines a bright light on how a real-world financial market operates and the simulation provides students with an experiential learning opportunity that is informative and fun.Each of the chapters is designed so that it can be used as a stand-alone module in an existing economics finance or information science course. Instructor resources such as discussion questions Powerpoint slides and TraderEx exercises are available online.