Workshop on Market Microstructure and Behavioral Finance (WMMBF-II)

Dates

23 June 2022

(Thursday)


Dates and Deadlines

Submission: 13 June 2022

Announcement of Acceptance: 17 June 2022

Registration: 20 June 2022 (via email)

Submission

Full papers or abstracts in English

itufinance01@itu.edu.tr


Fees

There is no submission or participation fee

Keynote Speaker

Andriy Shkilko (Wilfrid Laurier University)


Organizers

Cumhur Ekinci

Oğuz Ersan


Scientific Committee

Erdinç Akyıldırım, Boğaziçi University

Recep Bildik, Istanbul Ticaret University

Cumhur Ekinci, ITU

Oğuz Ersan, Kadir Has U

Neslihan Yılmaz, Boğaziçi U

Support

TÜBİTAK ARDEB Research Grant

(Project No: 218K566)

Host Institution: Kadir Has University


Topics

Agent-based modeling

Algorithmic trading

Anomalies and seasonality

Behavioral biases

Big data in finance

Brokerage and market making

Computational methods

Effects of news and announcements

Financial information

Financial regulation

Fragmentation

High-frequency data

High-frequency econometrics

High-frequency trading (HFT)

Institutional investors

Investment strategies

Investor and trader types

Investor sentiment

Limit order book (LOB)

Manipulation and insider trading

Market design

Market liquidity

Risk attitudes

Trading infrastructure and technology

Transparency

Program

June 23, 2022 - Thursday


10:30-10:35* Welcome Speech by Cumhur Ekinci (Istanbul Techical U)

10:35-10:45 Presentation of the Research Poject: "HFT, its Effects and Remedies" by Oğuz Ersan (Kadir Has U)

10:45-12:45 Morning Session

"Ghost Liquidity in a Single-Venue Market" by Nihan Dalgıç (Yeditepe U) - Discussant: Erdinç Akyıldırım (Boğaziçi U)

"Who Knows? Information Differences Between Trader Types" by Ion Lucas Şaru (Vrije U Amsterdam) - Discussant: Cenk Karahan (Boğaziçi U)

"Informed Trading through COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Bitcoin Market" by Timotheos Mavropoulos (Enskild Firma) - Discussant: Gamze Öztürk Danışman (Kadir Has U)

"I Know What You Did Last February: Informed Trading in Borsa Istanbul" by Mehmet Bodur (Kadir Has U) - Discussant: Evrim Hilal Kahya (Capital Markets Board)


12:45-13:45 Lunch Break


13:45-15:25 Afternoon Session

"Effective Portfolio Optimization Through Sentiment Analysis" by Ünsal Kıran (Istanbul Technical U) - Discussant: Şükriye Tüysüz (Yeditepe U)

"Stock Selection and Investor Sentiment" by Bayram Veli Salur (Istanbul Technical U) - Discussant: Neslihan Yılmaz (Boğaziçi U)

"Competing trading strategies in an agent-based artificial stock market" by Hidayet Beyhan (Istanbul Technical U) - Discussant: Ünsal Kıran (Istanbul Technical U)

"Time-frequency Interdependence between a large game of financial assets analysed with Wavelet coherence analysis" by Cengiz Karataş (Yeditepe U) - Discussant: Selçuk Bayracı (Cybersoft)


15:30-16:00 R Session

"What have we learnt from PINstimation" by Montasser Ghachem (Stockholm U)


16:00-17:00 Keynote Speech

"On the Effects of Continuous Trading" by Andriy Shkilko (Wilfrid Laurier U)


* Turkey Time (UTC/GMT +3h)