IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/restud/v58y1991i2p237-257..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Equilibrium Bid-Ask Spreads in Markets with Multiple Assets

Author

Listed:
  • Kathleen Hagerty

Abstract

The paper models the specialist system as a monopolistically competitive market. The demand for the asset is found by solving the investor's portfolio problem with transactions costs. These demand equations are used as inputs in the specialist's price-setting problem. It is shown that equilibrium prices and hence equilibrium portfolio holdings depend upon the characteristics of the assets and the investors and the number of assets being traded. Conditions are given under which the bid and ask prices will converge to the competitive level as the number of assets increases. Predictive differences between a monopolistically competitive market and a market where specialists collude are also discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Kathleen Hagerty, 1991. "Equilibrium Bid-Ask Spreads in Markets with Multiple Assets," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 58(2), pages 237-257.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:restud:v:58:y:1991:i:2:p:237-257.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/2297966
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gehrig, Thomas & Jackson, Matthew, 1998. "Bid-ask spreads with indirect competition among specialists," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 1(1), pages 89-119, April.
    2. Suvanto, Antti, . "Foreign Exchange Dealing. Essays on the Microstructure of the Foreign Exchange Market," ETLA A, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, number 19.
    3. Lamoureux, Christopher G. & Schnitzlein, Charles R., 2004. "Microstructure with multiple assets: an experimental investigation into direct and indirect dealer competition," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 7(2), pages 117-143, February.
    4. Suvanto, Antti, 1992. "Pricing decisions and the position constraint in foreign exchange dealing," Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 27/1992, Bank of Finland.
    5. Kariyawasam Galoluwage Madurika Nanayakkara & Sisira Colombage, 2021. "Does compliance with Green Bond Principles bring any benefit to make G20’s ‘Green economy plan’ a reality?," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(3), pages 4257-4285, September.
    6. Masahiro Watanabe, 2003. "A Model of Stochastic Liquidity," Yale School of Management Working Papers ysm385, Yale School of Management.
    7. Masahiro Watanabe, 2003. "A Model of Stochastic Liquidity," Yale School of Management Working Papers ysm385, Yale School of Management.
    8. Moulton, Pamela C. & Wei, Li, 2009. "A tale of two time zones: The impact of substitutes on cross-listed stock liquidity," Journal of Financial Markets, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 570-591, November.
    9. Bart Frijns & Ivan Indriawan & Alireza Tourani‐Rad, 2021. "Quote dynamics of cross‐listed stocks," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 21(2), pages 497-522, June.
    10. Hatch, Brian C. & Johnson, Shane A., 2002. "The impact of specialist firm acquisitions on market quality," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(1), pages 139-167, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:restud:v:58:y:1991:i:2:p:237-257.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/restud .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.