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Market Makers' Supply and Pricing of Financial Market Liquidity

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  • Shen, Pu
  • Starr, Ross M.

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This study models the bid-ask spread in financial markets as a function of asset price variability and order flow. The market-maker is characterized as passively accepting orders to buy and to sell a security at the market's prevailing price (plus or minus half the bid-ask spread). The bid-ask spread adjusts to cover market-makers' average costs. The bid-ask spread then varies positively with: the security's price volatility, the volatility of order flow, and the absolute value of the market-maker's net inventory position. Each of these variables increases average cost and hence is priced in the bid-ask spread. Thus market liquidity (varying inversely with the bid-ask spread) declines with increasing price and volume volatility and with increasing size of market-maker net inventory positions. The model hence provides a particularly simple explanation for declining market liquidity during periods of large price movements and trading imbalances that increase the size of market-makers' net inventory.

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  • Shen, Pu & Starr, Ross M., 2000. "Market Makers' Supply and Pricing of Financial Market Liquidity," University of California at San Diego, Economics Working Paper Series qt69f9h5bz, Department of Economics, UC San Diego.
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