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Trading in Fragmented Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Abstract
We study fragmentation of equity trading using a model of imperfect competition among exchanges. In the model, increased competition drives down trading fees. However, additional arbitrage opportunities arise in fragmented markets, intensifying adverse selection. Due to these opposing forces, the effects of fragmentation are context dependent. To empirically investigate the ambiguity in a single context, we estimate key parameters of the model with order-level data for an Australian security. According to the estimates, the benefits of increased competition are outweighed by the costs of multi-venue arbitrage. Compared with the prevailing duopoly, we predict the counterfactual monopoly spread to be 23% lower.
Type
Article
Author(s)
Markus Baldauf, Joshua Mollner
Date Published
2021
Citations
Baldauf, Markus, and Joshua Mollner. 2021. Trading in Fragmented Markets. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 56(1): 93-121.
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