Impact of Volatility on Time-Based Transaction Ordering Policies

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Main Authors: Ko, Sunghun, Park, Jinsuk
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author Ko, Sunghun
Park, Jinsuk
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Park, Jinsuk
contents We study Arbitrum's Express Lane Auction (ELA), an ahead-of-time second-price auction that grants the winner an exclusive latency advantage for one minute. Building on a single-round model with risk-averse bidders, we propose a hypothesis that the value of priority access is discounted relative to risk-neutral valuation due to the difficulty of forecasting short-horizon volatility and bidders' risk aversion. We test these predictions using ELA bid records matched to high-frequency ETH prices and find that the result is consistent with the model.
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spellingShingle Impact of Volatility on Time-Based Transaction Ordering Policies
Ko, Sunghun
Park, Jinsuk
Computer Science and Game Theory
Econometrics
Trading and Market Microstructure
We study Arbitrum's Express Lane Auction (ELA), an ahead-of-time second-price auction that grants the winner an exclusive latency advantage for one minute. Building on a single-round model with risk-averse bidders, we propose a hypothesis that the value of priority access is discounted relative to risk-neutral valuation due to the difficulty of forecasting short-horizon volatility and bidders' risk aversion. We test these predictions using ELA bid records matched to high-frequency ETH prices and find that the result is consistent with the model.
title Impact of Volatility on Time-Based Transaction Ordering Policies
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
Econometrics
Trading and Market Microstructure
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23386