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Pricing of settlement link services and mergers of central securities depositories

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Jens Tapking () (European Central Bank, Kaiserstrasse 29, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.)

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This paper tries to contribute to the discussion on the role of securities settlement infrastructures for financial integration in Europe. It presents a model that can explain a well-known stylized fact of securities settlement, the surprisingly high fees charged by central securities depositories (CSDs) for settlement through links between CSDs. As the model turns out to provide a robust explanation for this stylized fact, it is then used to analyzes an important policy question, the welfare effects of mergers of CSDs. JEL Classification: G21, G15, L13.

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Paper provided by European Central Bank in its series Working Paper Series with number 710.

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Date of creation: Jan 2007
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Keywords: Securities settlement; link settlement fees; central securities depositories.;

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  1. Thorsten V. Koeppl & Cyril Monnet, 2004. "Guess what: it's the settlements!," Working Paper Series 375, European Central Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Baris Serifsoy & Marco Weiß, 2007. "Settling for Efficiency - A Framework for the European Securities Transactions Industry," Working Paper Series: Finance and Accounting 151, Department of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Heiko Schmiedel & Andreas Schönenberger, 2005. "Integration of securities market infrastructures in the euro area," Occasional Paper Series 33, European Central Bank. [Downloadable!]
  4. Schmiedel, Heiko & Malkamäki, Markku & Tarkka , Juha, 2002. "Economies of scale and technological development in securities depository and settlement systems," Research Discussion Papers 26/2002, Bank of Finland. [Downloadable!]
  5. Holthausen, Cornelia & Tapking, Jens, 2007. "Raising rival's costs in the securities settlement industry," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 91-116, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. Jens Tapking & Jing Yang, . "Horizontal and vertical integration in securities trading and settlement," Bank of England working papers 245, Bank of England. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Kauko, Karlo, 2003. "Interlinking securities settlement systems: A strategic commitment?," Research Discussion Papers 26/2003, Bank of Finland. [Downloadable!]
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