Financial Intermediation Chains in an Over-the-Counter Market

Ji Shen (), Bin Wei () and Hongjun Yan ()
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Ji Shen: Department of Finance, Peking University, Haidian District, 100871 Beijing, China
Bin Wei: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Hongjun Yan: Department of Finance, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 60614

Management Science, 2021, vol. 67, issue 7, 4623-4642

Abstract: We analyze financial intermediation chains in a search economy that is populated by investors with heterogeneous valuations of an asset. In equilibrium, investors with moderate valuations choose to be intermediaries, and those with extreme valuations are their customers. The average length of intermediation chains is shown to be decreasing in search cost, search speed, and market size but increasing in investors’ trading needs. These predictions are distinct from those implied by existing models in the literature. Our empirical evidence, based on data from the U.S. corporate bond market, is mostly consistent with our model predictions.

Keywords: intermediation chain; over the counter; search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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