Journal of Finance Vol. 57 No. 2 2002
Risk Aversion, Transparency, and Market Performance
open access
Abstract
Using a model of market making with inventories based on Biais (1993), we find that investors obtain more favorable execution prices, and they hence invest more, when markets are fragmented. In our model, risk‐averse dealers use less aggressive price strategies in more transparent markets (centralized) because quote dissemination alleviates uncertainty about the prices quoted by other dealers and, hence, reduces the need to compete aggressively for order flow. Further, we show that the move toward greater transparency (centralization) may have detrimental effects on liquidity and welfare.
- DOI
- 10.1111/1540-6261.00448
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 959-984
- Language
- en
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex