Call Markets with Adaptive Clearing Intervals

Trading mechanisms play a fundamental role in the health of financial markets. For example, it is believed that continuous double auctions constitute fertile soil for predatory behaviour and toxic order flows. To this end, frequent call markets have been proposed as an alternative design choice to address the latency arbitrage opportunities built in those markets. This paper studies the extent to which adaptive rules to define the length of the clearing intervals affect the performance of frequent call markets.