Why Do Listed Firms Pay for Market Making in Their Own Stock?
Preprint
- 1 January 2012
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
A recent innovation in equity markets is the introduction of market maker services paid for by the listed companies themselves, such as the Market Quality Program introduced in 2013 by NASDAQ. Using data from the Oslo Stock Exchange, we investigate what motivates issuing firms to pay a cost to improve the secondary market liquidity of their listed shares. By studying the timing of market maker hirings relative to corporate events we show that a contributing factor in this decision is the likelihood that the firm will interact with the capital markets in the near future. The typical firm employing a designated market maker is more likely to raise capital, repurchase shares or experience an exit by insiders.Keywords
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