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On the Static Efficiency of Secondary Bond Markets

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Oxelheim, Lars () (Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University)
Rafferty, Michael () (University of Western Sydney)

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Efficiency in the context of financial markets can be defined in many ways. The major strand of finance literature measures the market's ability to process information into prices. Another strand of literature refers to the economists' usual sense of the word, i.e. that markets ensure that resources are allocated to their most profitable use, and provide services at the lowest cost in terms of the resources employed. This paper, deploying the second definition, suggests a concept of static efficiency and claims that this efficiency can also be seen as a measure of the quality of a market. The paper develops a measure of qualitative static efficiency for bond markets built on four indicators: transparency, number of maturities and issuers, spread, and liquidity. Indicators of market quality should be easily accessible by those that are intending to use it. Using Nordic markets as case studies, we show that these markets became more economically efficient during the 1990's, but that transparency of efficiency remains a problem.

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Paper provided by Lund University, Institute of Economic Research in its series Working Paper Series with number 2001/7.

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Keywords: Key words: efficiency; transparency; market liquidity; bond markets.;

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  1. Andrén, Niclas & Oxelheim, Lars, 2002. "Exchange-Rate and Interest-Rate Driven Competitive Advantages in the EMU," Working Paper Series 2001/8, Lund University, Institute of Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Oxelheim, Lars & Rafferty, Michael, 2004. "On the Static Efficiency of Secondary Bond Markets," Working Paper Series 623, Research Institute of Industrial Economics. [Downloadable!]
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