Dark Pool Exclusivity Matters

48 Pages Posted: 11 May 2012 Last revised: 19 Dec 2013

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Leslie Boni

California State University, Monterey Bay

David C. Brown

University of Arizona - Department of Finance

J. Chris Leach

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance

Date Written: December 19, 2013

Abstract

Recent dark pool proliferation has magnified regulatory and academic concerns about equal access and market quality implications. Some dark pools, hoping to create an environment more amenable to buy-side institutional investors, craft their rules to discourage – or even exclude – brokers, high frequency traders and order-flow-information traders. We examine the role participation constraints play in large trade execution and find that a dark pool targeting buy-side counterparties experiences less serial correlation in returns, less volume and volatility increase pre-trade, and more trade clustering within and across days. Exclusivity influences execution quality. Not all dark pools are created equal.

Keywords: Dark pools, exclusivity, market microstructure, institutional trading, block trades

JEL Classification: G12, G14, G18

Suggested Citation

Boni, Leslie A and Brown, David C. and Leach, J. Chris, Dark Pool Exclusivity Matters (December 19, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2055808 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2055808

Leslie A Boni

California State University, Monterey Bay ( email )

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