Robert A. Schwartz

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About Robert A. Schwartz

His research is in the area of financial economics, with a primary focus on the structure of securities markets. He has published over sixty refereed journal articles, twelve edited books, and eight authored books, including Micro Markets: A Market Structure Approach to Microeconomic Analysis, Wiley & Sons, 2010, Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation: The TraderEx Course (co-authored with Gregory Sipress and Bruce Weber) Wiley & Sons, 2010, The Equity Trader Course (co-authored with Reto Francioni and Bruce Weber) Wiley & Sons, 2006, and Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading (co-authored with Reto Francioni) Wiley & Sons, 2004. He has served as a consultant to various market centers including the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, Instinet, the Arizona Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, and the Bolsa Mexicana. From April 1983 to April 1988, he was an associate editor of The Journal of Finance, and he is currently an associate editor of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and is a member of the advisory boards of International Finance and The Journal of Trading. In December 1995, Professor Schwartz was named the first chairman of Nasdaq's Economic Advisory Board, and he served on the EAB until Spring He is developer, with Bruce Weber and Greg Sipress, of the trading and market structure simulation, TraderEx In 2009, Schwartz was named the first recipient of the World Federation of Exchanges’ annual Award for Excellence.