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Regulation and security design in concentrated markets

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  • Babus, Ana
  • Hachem, Kinda

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Regulatory debates about centralized trading assume security design is immune to market structure. We consider a regulator who introduces an exchange to increase liquidity, understanding that security design is endogenous. For a given security, investors would like to trade in a larger market and, for a given market structure, they would like to trade a safer security. We show that financial intermediaries design riskier securities after the exchange is introduced, even when the exchange leads to the origination of safer underlying assets. The results reflect a relative dilution of investor market power and motivate coordinated policies to improve investor welfare.

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  • Babus, Ana & Hachem, Kinda, 2021. "Regulation and security design in concentrated markets," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 139-151.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:moneco:v:121:y:2021:i:c:p:139-151
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2021.05.003
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    Keywords

    Security design; Market structure; Market power;
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    JEL classification:

    • D47 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Market Design
    • D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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