Implementation Details for Frequent Batch Auctions: Slowing Down Markets to the Blink of an Eye
          
                  Eric Budish, Peter Cramton and John Shim
      
  
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            American Economic Review P&P
      
            418-424
      
            May
      
            2014
      
            
          
                          
      
  
  Abstract
              Our recent research (Budish, Cramton and Shim, 2013) proposes frequent batch auctions – uniform-price sealed-bid double auctions conducted at frequent but discrete time intervals – as a market design alternative to continuous-time trading in financial markets. This short paper discusses the implementation details of frequent batch auctions. We outline the process flow for frequent batch auctions, discuss a modification to the market design that accommodates market fragmentation and Reg NMS, and discuss the engineering and economic considerations relevant for determining the batch interval.
