Information Percolation in Segmented Markets

109 Pages Posted: 9 Mar 2010 Last revised: 10 Jul 2013

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Darrell Duffie

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Canadian Derivatives Institute

Gustavo Manso

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Semyon Malamud

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Swiss Finance Institute

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Date Written: July 8, 2013

Abstract

We study equilibria of dynamic over-the-counter markets in which agents are distinguished by their preferences and information. Over time, agents are privately informed by bids and o ffers. Investors diff er with respect to information quality, including initial information precision, and also in terms of market\connectivity," the expected frequency of their bilateral trading opportunities. We characterize endogenous information acquisition and show how learning externalities aff ect information gathering incentives. More liquid" markets lead to higher equilibrium information acquisition when the gains from trade and market duration are sufficiently large. On the other hand, for a small market duration, the opposite may occur if agents vary sufficiently in terms of their market connectivity.

Keywords: Search, Matching, Double Auctions, Segmented Markets, Equilibrium, Information, Percolation

JEL Classification: C78, C73, C62, D44

Suggested Citation

Duffie, James Darrell and Manso, Gustavo and Malamud, Semyon, Information Percolation in Segmented Markets (July 8, 2013). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 10-09, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1566964 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1566964

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