Over 250 days, daily signed order flow (buyer- minus seller-initiated volume) in a stock has standard deviation 2 lakh shares, and the sample covariance between the daily close-to-close price change and is ₹·shares.
(a) Estimate by OLS and compute the implied impact of a 1 lakh-share imbalance.
(b) In Kyle's model, why is the regression of (not ) on the right check of , and what does each regression recover in the simulation of Exercise m05_kyle?
(c) Give two reasons why the OLS slope from real daily data may be biased as an estimate of causal impact.
M05 · Problem 7 ★★ Check
Estimating Kyle's lambda
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