Dr. Ryan Riordan
Dr. Ryan Riordan
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Informationswirtschaft und -management
Englerstraße 14
Karlsruhe

+49 (721) 608 - 83 85
+49 (721) 608 - 83 99
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Consultation hours

Mo-Fr: By Appointment

Activities

Research Interests:
  • Empirical Asset Pricing
  • Market Microstructure
  • Financial Innovation
Teaching:
  • WS 09/10 - eFinance (Lecturer)
  • WS 08/09 - eFinance (Lecturer)
  • SS 08 - Seminar in Financial Information Processing
  • WS 07/08 - eFinance (Teaching Assistant)

Curriculum Vitae

Currently employed as a Post-doctoral research and head the Finance and Economic Forecasting team. Ryan Riordan recently passed his doctoral exam with distinction on the topic of: 'The Economics of Algorithmic Trading'. Previously Ryan worked as a derivatives trader with HSBC Trinkaus und Burkhardt in Dusseldorf, Germany, and as an IT-consultant. His undergraduate and MBA were completed at the Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada, where we was also employed to manage the educational trading room.
Publications

Working Papers

1
Riordan, R.; Storkenmaier, A. 2009
Latency, Liquidity and Price Discovery. presented at 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008, 9th Annual London Business School Transatlantic Doctoral Consortium 2009, 16th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association 2009.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1247482
@Unpublished{CitationKey,
author = {Riordan, Ryan and Storkenmaier, Andreas},
title = {{Latency, Liquidity and Price Discovery}},
note = {presented at 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008, 9th Annual London Business School Transatlantic Doctoral Consortium 2009, 16th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association 2009},
year = {2009},
url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=1247482}}
					
 
2
Riordan, R.; Hendershott, T. 2009
Algorithmic Trading and Information. Working Paper.
@Unpublished{CitationKey,
author = {Riordan, Ryan and Hendershott, Terrence},
title = {{Algorithmic Trading and Information}},
note = {Working Paper},
year = {2009}}
					

Papers in Proceedings and Collections

1
Wagener, M.; Kundisch, D.; Riordan, R.; Rabhi, F.; Weinhardt, C. 2010
Mispricing and Exchange Market Systems: The Effect of Infrastructure Upgrades. in: Sprague, R. H. (ed.), Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. (Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii). IEEE Computer Society. 259–269.
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Wagener, Martin and Kundisch, Dennis and Riordan, Ryan and Rabhi, Fethi and Weinhardt, Christof},
title = {{Mispricing and Exchange Market Systems: The Effect of Infrastructure Upgrades}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
year = {2010},
address = {Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii},
pages = {259-269},
editor = {Ralph H. Sprague},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}}
					
 
2
Wagener, M.; Riordan, R. 2009
System Latency in Linked Spot and Futures Markets. in: Nelson, M. L.; Shaw, M. J.; Strader, T. J. (eds.), Value Creation in e-Business Management - 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems. LNBIP 36. Springer. 231–245.
http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/722
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Wagener, Martin and Riordan, Ryan},
title = {{System Latency in Linked Spot and Futures Markets}},
booktitle = {Value Creation in e-Business Management - 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems},
year = {2009},
pages = {231-245},
editor = {Nelson, Matthew L. and Shaw, Michael J. and Strader, Troy J.},
series = {LNBIP 36},
publisher = {Springer},
url = {http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2009/722},
abstract = {We examine the lead-lag effect between DAX index and DAX index futures under asymmetric latency in the exchange infrastructure. Using 1-min high frequency observations in 2006-2007, it is found that the market integration between stock index and stock index futures has significantly grown compared to prior research. While the degree of price discovery in the futures market decreased both markets react mostly contemporaneously towards new information. An event story of latency reduction on Xetra reveals that exchange latency is one important factor explaining this development. We find evidence that smaller asymmetric round-trip-times between Xetra and Eurex lead to a higher degree of market integration.}}
					
 
3
Burghardt, M.; Riordan, R. 2009
Know the Flow: Sentiment Extraction from Retail Order Flow Data. in: D. Kundisch et al. (ed.), FinanceCom 2008, LNBIP 23. Springer. 31–46.
@Incollection{CitationKey,
author = {Burghardt, Matthias and Riordan, Ryan},
title = {{Know the Flow: Sentiment Extraction from Retail Order Flow Data}},
booktitle = {FinanceCom 2008, LNBIP 23},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2009},
editor = {{D. Kundisch et al.}},
pages = {31-46}}
					
 
4
Storkenmaier, A.; Riordan, R. 2009
The Effect of Automated Trading on Market Quality: Evidence from the New York Stock Exchange. D. Kundisch et al. (Eds): FinanceCom 2008, LNBIP 23, pp. 11-30, Springer Verlag.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q470h64156j21082/
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Storkenmaier, Andreas and Riordan, Ryan},
title = {{The Effect of Automated Trading on Market Quality: Evidence from the New York Stock Exchange}},
booktitle = {D. Kundisch et al. (Eds): FinanceCom 2008, LNBIP 23, pp. 11-30, Springer Verlag},
year = {2009},
url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/q470h64156j21082/}}
					
 
5
Burghardt, M.; Riordan, R. 2008
A Measure of Investor Confidence: Evidence from the European Warrant Exchange. Campus For Finance Research Conference.
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Burghardt, Matthias and Riordan, Ryan},
title = {{A Measure of Investor Confidence: Evidence from the European Warrant Exchange}},
booktitle = {Campus For Finance Research Conference},
year = {2008}}
					
 
6
Riordan, R.; Blau, B.; Weinhardt, C.; Neumann, D. 2008
Collaborative Continuous Service Engineering - A Case Study in a Financial Service Environment. Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). (Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii).
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Riordan, Ryan and Blau, Benjamin and Weinhardt, Christof and Neumann, Dirk},
title = {{Collaborative Continuous Service Engineering - A Case Study in a Financial Service Environment}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)},
year = {2008},
month = {January},
address = {Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii},
abstract = {We present a methodology to engineer services in real-time information environments. We evaluate, combine and enrich traditional techniques and methodologies such as New Product Development and Adaptive Software Development in order to support the development and continuous improvement of information services.  Our methodology is based upon the financial service environment. It is specific enough to be applicable in the field of finance and general enough to be applied broadly in information services development.}}
					
 
7
Burghardt, M.; Riordan, R. 2007
Investment Decisions and Investor Behaviour. Annual Conference of the Northern Finance Association (NFA). (Toronto, Canada).
@Inproceedings{CitationKey,
author = {Burghardt, Matthias and Riordan, Ryan},
title = {{Investment Decisions and Investor Behaviour}},
booktitle = {Annual Conference of the Northern Finance Association (NFA)},
year = {2007},
address = {Toronto, Canada},
abstract = {Using the data from 4.4 million transactions in bank-issued warrants from the European Warrant Exchange, we compute an index of investor confidence and expectations. We show that retail investors are contrarian, that retail investor sentiment is an important part of the equity pricing process and that we have a good measure of the sentiment. Moreover, our measure is better than existing measures for our time period between January 2006 and March 2007. As a whole our measure of findings further supports a role for retail investor sentiment in the equity pricing process.}}
					

Other Publications

1
Riordan, R.; Wagener, M. 2009
The Battle for Milliseconds - Attracting Algorithmic Order Flow. Karlsruher Transfer 21(38).
@Article{CitationKey,
author = {Riordan, R. and Wagener, M.},
title = {{The Battle for Milliseconds - Attracting Algorithmic Order Flow}},
journal = {Karlsruher Transfer},
year = {2009},
volume = {21},
number = {38}}
					
Supervised Theses
KIT – University of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and National Research Center of the Helmholtz Association