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- Title
Plumbing of Securities Markets: The Impact of Post-trade Fees on Trading and Welfare.
- Authors
Degryse, Hans; Van Achter, Mark; Wuyts, Gunther
- Abstract
We analyze how market design choices about counterparty information and costs related to the "plumbing" (i.e., clearing, settlement, and custody) of securities markets affect market quality and welfare. Our model compares two post-trade fee structures for allocating these costs. One charges a uniform fee for all trades and the other, marginal cost–based structure a reduced fee for internalized trades (which, both traders being from the same broker, is less costly to process). Both market design and fee structure affect quote aggressiveness and trading volume and its composition. With marginal cost–based fees and counterparty information being available, traders decide which counterparties to target through quote aggressiveness, trading off execution probability against fee. A social planner can maximize welfare by requiring marginal cost–based fees and providing traders the choice to disclose counterparty information. This paper was accepted by Gustavo Manso, finance.
- Subjects
FINANCIAL markets; ADMINISTRATIVE fees; PLUMBING; COST structure; COST allocation
- Publication
Management Science, 2022, Vol 68, Issue 1, p635
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2020.3880