To Pool or Not to Pool? Security Design in OTC Markets

41 Pages Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last revised: 6 Apr 2023

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Vincent Glode

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Christian Opp

University of Rochester

Ruslan Sverchkov

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

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Date Written: June 2020

Abstract

We study security issuers' decision whether to pool assets when facing counterparties endowed with market power, as is common in over-the-counter markets. Unlike in competitive markets, pooling assets may be suboptimal in the presence of market power - both privately and socially - in particular, when the potential gains from trade are large. In these cases, pooling assets reduces the elasticity of trade volume in the relevant part of the payoff distribution, exacerbating inefficient rationing associated with the exercise of market power. Our results shed light on recently observed time-variation in the prevalence of pooling in financial markets.

Suggested Citation

Glode, Vincent and Opp, Christian and Sverchkov, Ruslan, To Pool or Not to Pool? Security Design in OTC Markets (June 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27361, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3626862

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Ruslan Sverchkov

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