Review of Financial Studies Vol. 12 No. 1 1999
Market Transparency: Who Wins and Who Loses?
Abstract
This study uses laboratory experiments to determine the effects of trade and quote disclosure on market efficiency, bid-ask spreads, and trader welfare. We show that trade disclosure increases the informational efficiency of transaction prices, but also increases opening bid-ask spreads, apparently by reducing market-makers' incentives to compete for order flow. As a result, trade disclosure benefits market makers at the expense of liquidity traders and informed traders. We find that quote disclosure has no discernible effects on market performance. Overall our results demonstrate that the degree of market transparency has important effects of market equilibria and on trader and market-maker welfare. Article published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies in its journal, The Review of Financial Studies.
- DOI
- 10.1093/rfs/12.1.5
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-35
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref