Market Microstructure and Digital Disruption

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue explores the critically important theme of “Market Microstructure and Digital Disruption”, offering a platform for innovative and rigorous research at the intersection of trading mechanisms, market design, and the dissemination of information in the new era of digital finance and Fintech. This Special Issue aims to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of how informational frictions affect asset pricing, market liquidity, trading behavior, and financial stability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, information asymmetry, Price Discovery, Bid–Ask Spreads, market transparency, adverse selection, High-Frequency Trading, Order Flow Analysis, and the role of informed versus uninformed traders. We also encourage submissions addressing digital finance, fintech innovations, investor protection, policy implications, regulatory frameworks, and the influence of technological advancements such as algorithmic trading and decentralized markets.

We invite high-quality original manuscripts grounded in strong theoretical models or empirical analyses. Cross-disciplinary studies, international comparisons, and methodological innovations are especially welcome. This Special Issue is intended to serve both academic and practitioner audiences interested in understanding and improving market efficiency and fairness.

We aim to publish ten peer-reviewed papers and make the collection available in both digital and print formats, contributing to a broader and deeper discourse on how market microstructure shapes modern financial markets.

Dr. Priyantha Mudalige
Dr. Damien Wallace
Guest Editors

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