Competition/fragmentation in equities markets: a literature survey : [version november 2013]
- Advances in technology and several regulatory initiatives have led to the emergence of a competitive but fragmented equity trading landscape in the US and Europe. While these changes have brought about several benefits like reduced transaction costs, regulators and market participants have also raised concerns about the potential adverse effects associated with increased execution complexity and the impact on market quality of new types of venues like dark pools. In this article we review the theoretical and empirical literature examining the economic arguments and motivations underlying market fragmentation, as well as the resulting implications for investors' welfare. We start with the literature that views exchanges as natural monopolies due to presence of network externalities, and then examine studies which challenge this view by focusing on trader heterogeneity and other aspects of the microstructure of equity markets.
Author: | Peter GomberORCiDGND, Satchit Sagade, Erik TheissenORCiDGND, Moritz Christian Weber, Christian Westheide |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-324797 |
URL: | http://ssrn.com/abstract=2362216 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2362216 |
Parent Title (German): | SAFE working paper series ; No. 35 |
Series (Serial Number): | SAFE working paper (35) |
Publisher: | SAFE |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2013 |
Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/12/10 |
Tag: | Competition; Fragmentation; Liquidity; Market Quality; Market Structure |
Issue: | version november 2013 |
Page Number: | 38 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 348861230 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |