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Order aggressiveness and order book dynamics 141<br />

should be distributed as i.i.d. unit exponential. As a result, model diagnostics can<br />

be undertaken by evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the dynamical and distributional properties <strong>of</strong> these<br />

residuals. Engle and Russell (1998) have proposed<br />

ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi<br />

a test aga<strong>in</strong>st excess dispersion<br />

based on the asymptotically normal test statistic nk p<br />

=8 ^2 " k 1 , where ^2 " k is the<br />

empirical variance <strong>of</strong> the k-type residual series and n k denotes the number <strong>of</strong> po<strong>in</strong>ts<br />

observed for process k.<br />

4 Data and descriptive statistics<br />

4.1 Trad<strong>in</strong>g at the ASX<br />

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is a cont<strong>in</strong>uous double auction electronic<br />

market. After a pre-open<strong>in</strong>g period followed by a staggered sequence <strong>of</strong> open<strong>in</strong>g<br />

call auctions, normal trad<strong>in</strong>g takes place cont<strong>in</strong>uously between 10:00 A.M. and<br />

16:00 P.M. The market is closed with a further call auction and a late trad<strong>in</strong>g period.<br />

For more details regard<strong>in</strong>g the daily market schedule <strong>of</strong> the ASX, see Hall and<br />

Hautsch (2004). Dur<strong>in</strong>g normal trad<strong>in</strong>g, orders can be entered as market orders<br />

which will execute immediately and limit orders which enter the queues. On the<br />

ASX, as orders are not allowed to walk up (down) the book, a market order with a<br />

large quoted volume will first be matched with the pend<strong>in</strong>g volume on the first<br />

level <strong>of</strong> the opposite queue. Trades will be generated and traded orders deleted until<br />

there is no more order volume at the posted price. The rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g part <strong>of</strong> the order<br />

enters the queue as a correspond<strong>in</strong>g limit order. When a market order is executed<br />

aga<strong>in</strong>st several pend<strong>in</strong>g limit orders, a trade record for each market order—limit<br />

order pair is generated. S<strong>in</strong>ce these multiple trades are generated by a s<strong>in</strong>gle market<br />

order, we aggregate them <strong>in</strong>to a s<strong>in</strong>gle trade record.<br />

Limit orders are queued <strong>in</strong> the buy and sell queues accord<strong>in</strong>g to a strict pricetime<br />

priority order. Dur<strong>in</strong>g normal trad<strong>in</strong>g, pend<strong>in</strong>g limit orders can be modified or<br />

cancelled without restrictions. 9 All trades and orders are visible to the public.<br />

Orders with a total value exceed<strong>in</strong>g $200,000 can be entered with a hidden volume.<br />

However, sufficient <strong>in</strong>formation is available to unambiguously reconstruct all<br />

transactions.<br />

4.2 Descriptive statistics<br />

Our empirical analysis is based on the order book data from the five most liquid<br />

stocks traded at the ASX dur<strong>in</strong>g the period 1 July to 30 August 2002, namely<br />

Broken Hill Proprietary Limited (BHP), National Australia Bank (NAB), News<br />

Corporation (NCP), Telstra (TLS) and Woolworths (WOW). The samples are<br />

extracted from the Stock Exchange Automated Trad<strong>in</strong>g System and conta<strong>in</strong> time<br />

stamped prices, volumes and identification attributes <strong>of</strong> all orders as well as<br />

<strong>in</strong>formation about open<strong>in</strong>g and clos<strong>in</strong>g auctions. By replicat<strong>in</strong>g the execution<br />

eng<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> the ASX, with explicit consideration <strong>of</strong> all trad<strong>in</strong>g rules, we can fully<br />

reconstruct the <strong>in</strong>dividual order books at any time. Our result<strong>in</strong>g samples consist <strong>of</strong><br />

9 Clearly, modify<strong>in</strong>g the order volume or the order price can affect the order priority. For more<br />

details, see Hall and Hautsch (2004).

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