Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? Using data from NYSE Euronext Paris, we show that an exogenous increase in competition among DMMs leads to a significant decrease in quoted and effective spreads, mainly through a reduction in...

We develop a credit-risk model to study how information acquisition affects the liquidity in a secondary bond market. In our model, the creditors of a firm can acquire costly information about the firm and exploit the information advantage by selling their bonds to uninformed buyers. When a...

Anonymous trading is the norm in today's financial markets but there are a few exceptions. We study one such case, the OMX Nordic Exchanges (Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik) that have traditionally been more transparent than most other markets. On June 2, 2008 OMX Nordic switched...

This paper analyses the effects on liquidity of voluntary pre-trade anonymity in the trading process. We confirm previous studies showing that market liquidity improves immediately after anonymous trading. Using the daily percentage of effective volume traded anonymously, we show that the...

I study how arbitrage affects liquidity by analyzing several billion trades in the AmericanDepositary Receipt (ADR) market from 2001 to 2016. Price deviations persist, on average, for 12 minutes, and mainly arise because of price pressure. Impulse response functions estimated at 1-minute...

Global bonds are debt securities placed in multiple markets with globally connected trading and clearing mechanisms. This paper studies the relation between global bond issuer’s currency denomination decisions and prevailing borrowing costs. The results show that issuers of these globally...

In this paper, we study the mechanisms that govern price stability of MakerDAO's DAI token, the first decentralized stablecoin. DAI works through a set of autonomous smart contracts, in which users deposit cryptocurrency collateral, typically Ethereum, and borrow a fraction of their positions as...

Using a sample of 300 NYSE listed securities and excluding trade reporting facility trades, we examine the impact of order executions inside of the posted spread on market centers, an inside the spread trade(IST). The posted spread on a market center may differ from the National Best Bid and...

Transaction costs in many international equity markets are reported as being much larger than those in the U.S. This raises questions such as what trade size these reported trading costs relate to and whether investors can reduce trading costs by timing their trades. We show, using data from the...