Market Liquidity and Trader Welfare in Multiple Dealer Markets: Evidence from Dual Trading Restrictions

55 Pages Posted: 9 Nov 1998

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Asani Sarkar

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Peter Locke

Texas Christian University

Lifan Wu

California State University, Los Angeles - Department of Finance and Law

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Date Written: July 1998

Abstract

In the context of dual trading restrictions, we examine whether aggregate liquidity measures are appropriate indicators of trader welfare in multiple dealer markets. Consistent with our theoretical results, we show empirically that dual trading restrictions did not affect market liquidity significantly, but dual traders of above-average skills may have quit brokerage and switched to trading exclusively for their own accounts following restrictions. Further, customers of these dual-traders had lower trading costs in the period before restrictions relative to the trading costs of all customers after restrictions.

JEL Classification: G12, G13, G18

Suggested Citation

Sarkar, Asani and Locke, Peter R. and Wu, Lifan, Market Liquidity and Trader Welfare in Multiple Dealer Markets: Evidence from Dual Trading Restrictions (July 1998). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=138971 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.138971

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