Using a market-making inventory model, we analyze the impact of order preferencing on dealers' quoting behavior by changing the degree of quote disclosure. We find that preferenced orders raise the inventory-holding costs of preferenced dealers, making them less able to post attractive quotes....

This work intends to shed some light on a new use of Phase-type distributions in credit risk, taking into account different flows of information without huge numerical calculations. We consider credit migration models with partial information and study the influence of a deficit of information...

We consider information sharing between traders who process different types of information, namely information on the value of a risky security or information on the volume of liquidity trading in this security. We intercept the traders as dual-capacity brokers on the floor of an Exchange.

Market fragmentation and technology have given rise to new trading strategies. One of them is to supply liquidity simultaneously across multiple trading venues, which requires multi-venue management of inventory risk. We build an inventory model in which order ow fragments across two venues, and...

Financial markets are increasingly fragmented. How to supply liquidity in this environment? Using an inventory model, we analyze how two strategic intermediaries compete across two venues that can be hit simultaneously by liquidity shocks of equal or opposite signs. Although order flow is...

This paper examines whether NASDAQ dealers' preopening quotes might be related to non-fundamental information, that is, information about transient trading pressure unrelated to fundamentals. Preopening quotes posted by wholesalers (dealers specialized in market-making and thus presumably more...