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Ben Van Vliet

Illinois Institute of Technology
Verified email at stuart.iit.edu
Cited by 571

An alternative model of Metcalfe's Law for valuing Bitcoin

B Van Vliet - Economics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
This short paper presents a new model of the market capitalization of Bitcoin that builds upon
a standard model based upon Metcalfe’s Law. The model incorporates the logistic diffusion …

A behavioural approach to the lean startup/minimum viable product process: the case of algorithmic financial systems

BENVAN VLIET - International Journal of Innovation Management, 2020 - World Scientific
This paper theorises about the behaviour of firms engaged in complex product systems
innovation and engineering under the lean startup/minimum viable product process. In doing so, …

From decision optimization to satisficing: Regulation of automated trading in the US financial markets

WL Currie, JJJM Seddon, B Van Vliet - Information & Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Market fragmentation, technical complexity and information asymmetry drive the regulation
of financial markets. We examine how government bodies develop and implement policy …

Ethics for automated financial markets

R Cooper, M Davis, A Kumiega, B Van Vliet - Handbook on ethics in …, 2020 - Springer
Financial markets are now ecologies of trading algorithms. In this chapter, we propose
market effectiveness as the ethical goal of automated markets and review the professional, …

Ethics, finance, and automation: A preliminary survey of problems in high frequency trading

M Davis, A Kumiega, B Van Vliet - Science and engineering ethics, 2013 - Springer
All of finance is now automated, most notably high frequency trading. This paper examines
the ethical implications of this fact. As automation is an interdisciplinary endeavor, we argue …

The mysterious ethics of high-frequency trading

R Cooper, M Davis, B Van Vliet - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2016 - cambridge.org
The ethics of high frequency trading are obscure, due in part to the complexity of the practice.
This article contributes to the existing literature of ethics in financial markets by examining …

[BOOK][B] Phantom liquidity and high frequency quoting

J Blocher, R Cooper, J Seddon, B Van Vliet - 2019 - c.mql5.com
This paper examines every NASDAQ ITCH feed message for the S&P 500 stocks for 2012
and identifies clusters of extremely high and extremely low limit order cancellation activity. We …

High-frequency trading and conflict in the financial markets

…, J Seddon, B Van Vliet - Journal of Information …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The last few decades has seen an ever-increasing growth in the way activities are productized
and associated with a financial cost. This phenomenon, termed financialization, spans all …

How does high-frequency trading affect low-frequency trading?

K Li, R Cooper, B Van Vliet - Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
High-frequency trading dominates trading in financial markets. How it affects the low-frequency
trading, however, is still unclear. Using NASDAQ order book data, the authors investigate …

Trading system capability

A Kumiega, T Neururer, B Van Vliet - Quantitative Finance, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
High-frequency trading (HFT) systems come in different shapes and sizes. They include
stock and option market making systems, as well as other algorithm-driven strategies such as …