2020 Plato Market Innovator (MI3) Conference

Due to the ongoing pandemic, and with the health of participants front of mind, we made the decision to host the 2020 MI3 Academic Conference online over two days on Wednesday 23rd September and Thursday 24th September.

Respected academics from Universities across the world presented a number of papers on the most current trends and topics affecting market participants in Europe.

In addition, the event included a panel with leading industry experts and leaders in the world of Equities trading.


2020 MI3 Conference Papers


Marios A. Panayides, University of Pittsburgh - Katz Graduate School of Business; University of Cyprus - Department of Accounting and Finance

Barbara Rindi, Bocconi University and IGIER and Baffi Carefin

Ingrid M. Werner, The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business

Trading Fees and Intermarket Competition


Informed Traders and Dealers in the FX Forward Market

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, EPFL; Swiss Finance Institute

Peter Hoffmann, European Central Bank

Sebastian Vogel, EPFL; Swiss Finance Institute


Stock-Specific Price Discovery From ETFs

Thomas Ernst, MIT Sloan School of Management


Order Exposure in High Frequency Markets

Bidisha Chakrabarty, Saint Louis University - Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business

Terrence Hendershott, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Samarpan Nawn, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur; CFA Institute

Roberto Pascual, Universidad de las Islas Baleares


Strategic Trading as a Response to Short Sellers

Marco Di Maggio, Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Francesco A. Franzoni, Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano); Swiss Finance Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Massimo Massa, INSEAD - Finance

Roberto Tubaldi, BI Norwegian Business School


The Rise of ETF Trading and the Bifurcation of Liquidity

Jonathan Brogaard, David Eccles School of Business - University of Utah

Davidson Heath, David Eccles School of Business -University of Utah

Da Huang, David Eccles School of Business - University of Utah


Cross-Venue Liquidity Provision: High Frequency Trading and Ghost Liquidity

Hans Degryse, KU Leuven; CEPR

Rudy De Winne, UCLouvain, Louvain Finance (LIDAM)

Carole Gresse, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, DRM, CNRS

Richard Payne, Cass Business School, City University of London

Videos from MI3 2020