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Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms

Mechanisms, P. T. F. o. M. (1988). Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms.

Type
Book
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Review or monograph
Year
1988
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https://archive.org/details/reportofpresiden01unit
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  • Circuit Breaker
    • The mechanism was introduced explicitly in response to the 1987 "Black Monday" crash, a deliberate import of the electrical metaphor into market microstructure.

      This sourceU.S. Government Printing Office. Post-Black Monday (Oct. 19, 1987) inquiry chaired by Nicholas Brady that recommended coordinated market-wide trading halts ('circuit breakers') at staged index-decline thresholds (adopted by U.S. markets in Oct. 1988; later codified as NYSE Rule 80B), a deliberate import of the electrical metaphor into market microstructure.

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      The Brady report recommends circuit-breaker trading halts as a response to the October 1987 market break, but it only recommends them and never mentions an electrical metaphor.

      “The October 1987 market break demonstrates that it is far better to design and implement coherent, coordinat- ed circuit breaker mechanisms in advance”

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