# Prof. Joel Hasbrouck will participate in a US government high-frequency trading panel

1 Faculty News March 26, 2012 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c3a943aa-7781-11e1-93cb-00144feab49a.html#axzz1qKa6ophQ) -- "Two influential academics were also included, both of whom have argued in favour of speed trading. ... [Joel Hasbrouck](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/joel-hasbrouck) of the New York University Stern School of Business co-authored a paper finding that high-speed trading 'improves traditional market quality measures.'"

[Read more](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c3a943aa-7781-11e1-93cb-00144feab49a.html#axzz1qKa6ophQ)

Additional coverage appeared in [The Grumpy Economist](http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/02/weird-stuff-in-high-frequency-markets.html).