Hun Y. Park (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Asani Sarkar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Lifan Wu (City University of Hong Kong)
Abstract
In the context of futures markets, we study whether brokers allocate more favorable trades to their own accounts, and less favorable trades to their customers. We find that, within a thirty minute trading bracket, brokers on average buy at a lower price and sell at a higher price for their own accounts relative to their customers. We show evidence that brokers' price advantage may be compensation for providing liquidity to the market when brokers trade for their own accounts, but no evidence that they are due to brokers' superior information, or to greater effort by brokers when trading for themselves. Consistent with the idea that, in a competitive market for brokerage services, brokers may pass on some of their profits to customers, we find that brokers who trade for themselves also provide superior execution for their customers, relative to brokers who do not trade for themselves.
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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Finance with number
9801002.
Length: 41 pages Date of creation: 26 Jan 1998 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:9801002
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