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Journal articles (2022), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, In press

Fragmentation and Strategic Market-Making

DAURES-LESCOURRET Laurence , MOINAS Sophie

How does trading in one venue affect the quoting strategies of market-makers in other venues? We develop a two-venue imperfect competition model in which market-makers face quadratic costs when absorbing shocks. Non constant marginal costs imply that absorbing a shock in one venue simultaneously changes marginal costs in all other venues. Moreover, market-makers strategically choose which shock(s) to absorb. These two forces may intensify competition, leading to enhanced liquidity. Using Euronext proprietary data, we track individual best bid and ask quotes of intermediaries in each venue. We uncover evidence of strategic cross-venue market-making behavior which is uniquely predicted by our model. Link to the article

DAURES-LESCOURRET, L. and MOINAS, S. (2022). Fragmentation and Strategic Market-Making. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, In press.

Keywords : #Fragmentation, #Market, #Making, #Imperfect-Competition