The behavior of dealers and clients on the European corporate bond market: the case of Multi-Dealer-to-Client platforms

Jean-David Fermanian, Olivier Guéant and Jiang Pu
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Jean-David Fermanian: ENSAE - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique - Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Economique, Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST)
Jiang Pu: LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires - UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: For the last two decades, most financial markets have undergone an evolution toward electronification. The market for corporate bonds is one of the last major financial markets to follow this unavoidable path. Traditionally quote-driven (i.e., dealer-driven) rather than order-driven, the market for corporate bonds is still mainly dominated by voice trading, but a lot of electronic platforms have emerged. These electronic platforms make it possible for buy-side agents to simultaneously request several dealers for quotes, or even directly trade with other buy-siders. The research presented in this article is based on a large proprietary database of requests for quotes (RFQ) sent, through the multi-dealer-to-client (MD2C) platform operated by Bloomberg Fixed Income Trading, to one of the major liquidity providers in European corporate bonds. Our goal is (i) to model the RFQ process on these platforms and the resulting competition between dealers, and (ii) to use our model in order to implicit from the RFQ database the behavior of both dealers and clients on MD2C platforms.

Keywords: Request for quotes; corporate bonds; market making; latent reservation price; competition among dealers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
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Published in Market microstructure and liquidity, 2016, 02 (03n04), pp.1750004. ⟨10.1142/S2382626617500046⟩

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