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Aryan Ayyar

Price Formation, Information and Equilibrium

I study how information becomes price when markets have structure. My work combines rational-expectations and general-equilibrium theory, asset pricing, market microstructure, and high-frequency empirical finance.

rational expectations general equilibrium asset pricing market microstructure high-frequency empirics

Selected Working Papers

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[02]

Where Manipulation Hides

2026

Shows how enforcement can suppress visible spoofing while displacing manipulation into opaque channels, making apparent success conceal greater market-wide harm.

[03]

Queue Priority as Adverse-Selection Exposure

2026

Reframes FIFO priority as state-contingent adverse-selection exposure, linking fill toxicity, cancellation, hidden effective rank, and Kyle / Back information states.

[04]

Prices at Three Speeds

2026

Traces return predictability from one day to three years: strong continuation over 3–8 months and reversal over 12–36 months, while same-firm NSE–BSE gaps close within days.

[05]

Investor Preferences Under Uncertainty and the Cross-Country Green Bond Premium

2026

Submitted to Finance Research Letters. Uses 417 matched green bonds across 30 countries to study how long-term orientation and uncertainty avoidance shape greenium heterogeneity.

LIVE LAB

Market Microstructure Lab

A public dashboard built from raw Nasdaq TotalView-ITCH order-level data: visible depth, top-of-book motion, execution bursts, cancel waves, and liquidity droughts.

>> open_lob_dashboard.sh

Writing

Short fiction and essays: tenderness, restraint, and the rituals that carry histories.

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Education

MS Finance The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
BTech Mechatronics Engineering Manipal Institute of Technology

Let's talk research.

Open to PhD discussions on market microstructure, asset pricing, liquidity, and hidden-state identification in electronic markets.

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