The market drives ETFs or ETFs the market: causality without Granger

04/07/2022
by   Peter Lerner, et al.
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This paper develops a deep learning-based econometric methodology to determine the causality of the financial time series. This method is applied to the imbalances in daily transactions in individual stocks, as well as the ETFs reported to SEC with a nanosecond time stamp. Based on our method, we conclude that transaction imbalances of ETFs alone are more informative than the transaction imbalances in the entire market. Characteristically, a sheer number of imbalance messages related to the individual stocks dominates the imbalance messages due to the ETF in the proportion of 8:1.

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