We analyse the effect of concealing limit order traders’ identities on market liquidity. We develop a model in which … cost of liquidity provision were large when indeed it is small. This bluffing strategy is less effective when traders … anonymous market. For this reason, concealing limit order traders’ IDs affects market liquidity in our model. We test this …

markets, traders and the trading process, I review the theory of the bid–ask spread in Section 3 and examine the implications …