Liquidity Cycles and Make/Take Fees in Electronic Markets
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- Author(s): THIERRY FOUCAULT, OHAD KADAN, EUGENE KANDEL
- Published: Jan 11, 2013
- Pages: 299-341
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01801.x
ABSTRACT
We develop a model in which the speed of reaction to trading opportunities is endogenous. Traders face a trade‐off between the benefit of being first to seize a profit opportunity and the cost of attention required to be first to seize this opportunity. The model provides an explanation for maker/taker pricing, and has implications for the effects of algorithmic trading on liquidity, volume, and welfare. Liquidity suppliers’ and liquidity demanders’ trading intensities reinforce each other, highlighting a new form of liquidity externalities. Data on durations between trades and quotes could be used to identify these externalities.