Frédéric Abergel & Jean-Philippe Bouchaud 
Market Microstructure 
Confronting Many Viewpoints

The latest cutting-edge research on market microstructure

Based on the December 2010 conference on market microstructure,
organized with the help of the Institut Louis Bachelier, this guide
brings together the leading thinkers to discuss this important
field of modern finance. It provides readers with vital insight on
the origin of the well-known anomalous ‘stylized facts’ in
financial prices series, namely heavy tails, volatility, and
clustering, and illustrates their impact on the organization of
markets, execution costs, price impact, organization liquidity in
electronic markets, and other issues raised by high-frequency
trading. World-class contributors cover topics including analysis
of high-frequency data, statistics of high-frequency data, market
impact, and optimal trading. This is a must-have guide for
practitioners and academics in quantitative finance.

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FRÉDÉRIC ABERGEL graduated from École
Normale Supérieure with a Ph D in Mathematics. He started an
academic career as a researcher with the CNRS. He spent ten years
in the Mathematics department of the University of Orsay Paris XI
and then switched to the capital markets industry and became a
quantitative analyst. He has worked for trading floors in various
financial institutions, mainly in the derivatives sector,
developing pricing and hedging models. He now holds the BNP Paribas
Chair of Quantitative Finance at École Centrale Paris. His
research focuses on the study of empirical properties and
mathematical models of market microstructure, high frequency data,
algorithmic trading.

JEAN-PHILIPPE BOUCHAUD graduated from the École
Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he also obtained his Ph D in
physics. He was then appointed by the CNRS. After a year spent in
the Cavendish Laboratory, he joined the Service de Physique de
l’Etat Condensé, where he worked on the dynamics of
glassy systems and on granular media. His work in finance includes
extreme risk models, agent based simulations, market microstructure
and price formation. He went on to found the company Science &
Finance that merged with Capital Fund Management. He is now the
President and Head of Research at CFM, and professor at École
Polytechnique. He has published over 250 scientific papers and
several books in physics and in finance.

THIERRY FOUCAULT is Professor of Finance at HEC, Paris
where he received his Ph D in Finance. He is a research fellow of
the Centre for Economic Policy. His research focuses on the
determinants of financial markets liquidity and the industrial
organization of the securities industry. His work has been
published in top-tier scientific journals, including the Journal of
Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of
Financial Studies. He acts as co-editor of the Review of Finance
and he is an Associate Editor of the Review of Asset Pricing
Studies. For his research, he received awards from the Europlace
Institute of Finance in 2005 and 2009, the annual research prize of
the HEC Foundation in 2006 and 2009, and the Analysis Group award
for the best paper on Financial Markets and Institutions presented
at the 2009 Western Finance Association meetings.

CHARLES-ALBERT LEHALLE is the Head of Quantitative
Research at CA Cheuvreux and is an international expert in optimal
trading. He published papers in international journals about the
use of stochastic control and stochastic algorithms to optimise a
trading flow with respect to flexible contraints. He also authored
papers on post trade analysis, market impact estimates and
modelling the dynamics of limit order books. He lectures at Paris 6
(El Karoui) Master of Finance (École Polytechnique, ESSEC,
École Normale Supérieure) and MASEF/ENSAE, and gives
master classes in the Certificate in Quantitative Finance in
London. He holds a Ph D in Applied Mathematics and his core fields
are stochastic processes, information theory and nonlinear
control.

MATHIEU ROSENBAUM gained is Ph D from University
Paris-Est. He is now Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie
(Paris 6) and École Polytechnique and is a member of the CREST
(Center of Research in Economics and Statistics). His research
mainly focuses on statistical finance problems, such as market
microstructure modeling or designing statistical procedures for
high frequency data. He also has research collaborations with
several financial institutions, in particular BNP Paribas.