Hasbrouck, Joel; Rivera, Thomas J; Saleh, Fahad - 2023
We provide an economic model of a decentralized exchange (DEX) that allows investors to concentrate liquidity within … exogenously specified price intervals (e.g., Uniswap V3). We demonstrate that providing liquidity for a risky vs. risk-free asset … as the risky asset price increases. Notably, we establish that DEX liquidity provision is always a sub-optimal investment …