Market-Making and Proprietary Trading: Industry Trends, Drivers and Policy Implications
Market-makers serve a crucial role in financial markets by providing liquidity to facilitate market efficiency and functioning. Post crisis, several developments suggest that the behaviour of these liquidity providers may change. Such changes and their potential impact on fixed...
Read morePricing and Liquidity in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market
As of June 2012 there was $8.5 trillion of US corporate debt outstanding. But, relative to equity markets, the microstructure of the US corporate bond market has been under-researched. Dealers in the bond market have reduced their inventories substantially...
Read moreAssessing Fixed Income Market Liquidity
Since the 2008 financial crisis, there have been a number of developments in financial markets, such as new regulations, changes in market structure, and technological advancements. To varying degrees, these developments have had an impact on the landscape and...
Read morePre-Trade Transparency in Over-the-Counter Markets
Transparency is always an important element pertaining to market design. While many have explored the importance and the consequence of bringing post-trade transparency to over-the-counter (OTC, henceforth) markets, almost no research has been done to understand how pre-trade transparency...
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