The Impact of Dark Trading and Visible Fragmentation on Market Quality*
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- 13 June 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Finance Review
- Vol. 19 (4) , 1587-1622
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfu027
Abstract
Two important characteristics of current equity markets are the large number of competing trading venues with publicly displayed order books and the substantial fraction of dark trading, which takes place outside such visible order books. This article evaluates the impact on liquidity of dark trading and fragmentation in visible order books. Dark trading has a detrimental effect on liquidity. Visible fragmentation improves liquidity aggregated over all visible trading venues but lowers liquidity at the traditional market, meaning that the benefits of fragmentation are not enjoyed by investors who choose to send orders only to the traditional market.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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