Price Experimentation and Security Market Structure. Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We examine the role of market makers in facilitating price discovery. We; show that a specialist may experiment with prices to induce more; informative order flow, thereby expediting price discovery. Market makers; in a multiple-dealer system, unlike a specialist system, do not have the; incentives to perform such costly experiments because of free-rider; problems. Consequently, the specialist system may provide open markets; where bid-ask spreads. We analyze the effect of experimentation on the; bid-ask spread and provide an exploratory analysis of intraday specialist; data that is consistent with our price experimentation hypothesis. Article published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies; in its journal, The Review of Financial Studies.

publication date

  • January 1, 1993

Date in CU Experts

  • October 21, 2013 2:42 AM

Full Author List

  • Leach JC; Madhavan AN

author count

  • 2

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 375

end page

  • 404

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 2