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Innovation in Decentralized Markets: Technology versus Synthetic Products

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  • Marzena Rostek
  • Ji Hee Yoon

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Advances in market-clearing technology for multiple assets and synthetic products present alternative ways to leverage complementarities and substitutabilities in asset payoffs. This paper compares their equilibrium and welfare effects. In competitive markets, either instrument can mimic the efficient design. When traders have price impact, however, synthetic products and market-clearing technology provide separate instruments for impacting markets' performance and can generate synergies or trade-offs. Neither instrument can generally reproduce the other's payoffs state by state. Moreover, innovation in market clearing renders additional synthetic products nonredundant. Our analysis points to the advantages of each type of innovation while also exposing potential risks.

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  • Marzena Rostek & Ji Hee Yoon, 2024. "Innovation in Decentralized Markets: Technology versus Synthetic Products," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 16(1), pages 63-109, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aejmic:v:16:y:2024:i:1:p:63-109
    DOI: 10.1257/mic.20220138
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    JEL classification:

    • D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
    • D47 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Market Design
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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