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Customer Liquidity Provision: Implications for Corporate Bond Transaction Costs

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  • Jaewon Choi

    (Department of Finance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820; Yonsei Business School, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)

  • Yesol Huh

    (Federal Reserve Board, Washington, District of Columbia 20551)

  • Sean Seunghun Shin

    (Department of Finance, Aalto University School of Business, 02150 Espoo, Finland)

Abstract

The convention when calculating corporate bond trading costs is to estimate bid–ask spreads that customers pay, implicitly assuming that dealers always provide liquidity to customers. We show that, contrary to this assumption, customers increasingly provide liquidity following the adoption of post-2008 banking regulations, and thus, conventional bid–ask spread measures underestimate the cost of dealers’ liquidity provision. Among large trades wherein dealers use inventory capacity, customers pay 40%–60% wider spreads than before the crisis. Customers’ balance-sheet capacity and their trading relationships with dealers are important determinants of customer liquidity provision.

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  • Jaewon Choi & Yesol Huh & Sean Seunghun Shin, 2024. "Customer Liquidity Provision: Implications for Corporate Bond Transaction Costs," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 70(1), pages 187-206, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:70:y:2024:i:1:p:187-206
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2022.4646
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    Keywords

    corporate bond liquidity; customer liquidity provision; bank regulations and OTC liquidity; insurer liquidity provision;
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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