Semi‐transparency, dealership market, and foreign exchange market quality

Liang Ding, Hao Zou and Vittorio Addona

Review of Financial Economics, 2012, vol. 21, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of a semi‐transparency event, the introduction of the electronic trading system (EBS), on the market quality of a typical dealership market – the FX market. We find that increasing transparency leads to smaller quote disagreement among dealers and higher trading volume, but the beneficial effects are bigger for uninformed dealers than informed dealers. We also find that information efficiency improves overall in the semi‐transparent system; however, informed dealers are found to quote less aggressively in the more transparent market. We conclude that semi‐transparency raises market quality in general, but that it is the uninformed dealers who benefit more from this increased quality.

Date: 2012
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