Crossover from Linear to Square-Root Market Impact

Fédéric Bucci , Michael Benzaquen (1) , Fabrizio Lillo , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

1 LadHyX - Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique

Using a large database of 8 million institutional trades executed in the U.S. equity market, we establish a clear crossover between a linear market impact regime and a square-root regime as a function of the volume of the order. Our empirical results are remarkably well explained by a recently proposed dynamical theory of liquidity that makes specific predictions about the scaling function describing this crossover. Allowing at least two characteristic timescales for the liquidity ("fast" and "slow") enables one to reach quantitative agreement with the data.

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]; Finance quantitative [q-fin.CP]

Fédéric Bucci, Michael Benzaquen, Fabrizio Lillo, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. Crossover from Linear to Square-Root Market Impact. Physical Review Letters, 2019, 122 (10), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.108302⟩. ⟨hal-02323405⟩