What is the Impact of Introducing a Parallel OTC Market? Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Interbank FX Market

43 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2020 Last revised: 9 Mar 2021

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Craig W. Holden

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance

Dong Lu

Renmin University of China

Volodymyr Lugovskyy

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Economics

Daniela Puzzello

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Economics

Date Written: March 9, 2021

Abstract

Chinese Interbank Foreign Exchange trading was originally conducted through a centralized, anonymous limit order book (LOB). We determine the impact of the introduction of a parallel decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) market. We find that: (1) most trading migrated to the OTC, (2) the LOB price function is upward-sloping versus the OTC price function is downward-sloping, and (3) the LOB market has a single price function versus the OTC market has multiple price functions. Next, we develop a theoretical model of parallel markets that can simultaneously explain all of these empirical findings. We test a new model prediction and find support.

Keywords: Market structure, Over The Counter, Limit Order Book, FX market

JEL Classification: D83, G10

Suggested Citation

Holden, Craig W. and Lu, Dong and Lugovskyy, Volodymyr and Puzzello, Daniela, What is the Impact of Introducing a Parallel OTC Market? Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Interbank FX Market (March 9, 2021). Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 140, No. 270-291, 2021., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3658573 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3658573

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Daniela Puzzello

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