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Thorsten V. Koeppl () (Department of Economics, Queen's University)
Cyril Monnet () (European Central Bank, DG Research)

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Abstract

Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the gains from such consolidation, when costs of settlement are private information, there is no mechanism that achieves the merger of the vertical silos in a way that trading and settlement are produced efficiently after the merger. Furthermore, we show that such an ex-post efficient merger can always be implemented by delegating the operation of settlement platforms to agents.

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Paper provided by European Central Bank in its series Working Paper Series with number 375.

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Date of creation: Jul 2004
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Keywords: Clearing and Settlement; Mechanism Design; Horizontal and Vertical Integration;

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C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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