Decentralized Exchange
Semyon Malamud, Marzena Rostek
American Economic Review · 2017 · Volume 107 · Issue 11
Abstract
Most assets are traded in multiple interconnected trading venues. This paper develops an equilibrium model of decentralized markets that accommodates general market structures with coexisting exchanges. Decentralized markets can allocate risk among traders with different risk preferences more efficiently, thus realizing gains from trade that cannot be reproduced in centralized markets. Market decentralization always increases price impact. Yet, markets in which assets are traded in multiple exchanges, whether they are disjoint or intermediated, can give higher welfare than the centralized market with the same traders and assets. In decentralized markets, demand substitutability across assets is endogenous and heterogeneous among traders.
Keywords
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection, Auctions, Network Formation and Analysis: Theory, Portfolio Choice, Investment Decisions, Asset Pricing, Trading Volume, Bond Interest Rates
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