Inventory Management, Dealers' Connections, and Prices in OTC Markets
64 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2018 Last revised: 28 Oct 2020
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Inventory Management, Dealers' Connections, and Prices in OTC Markets
Inventory Management, Dealers' Connections, and Prices in OTC Markets
Date Written: October 27, 2020
Abstract
We propose a new model of trading in OTC markets. Dealers accumulate inventories by trading with end-investors and trade among each other to reduce their inventory holding costs. Core dealers use a more efficient trading technology than peripheral dealers, who are heterogeneously connected to core dealers and trade with each other bilaterally. Connectedness affects prices and allocations if and only if the peripheral dealers' aggregate inventory position differs from zero. Price dispersion increases in the size of this position. The model generates new predictions about the effects of dealers' connectedness and dealers' aggregate inventories on prices.
Keywords: OTC markets, Interdealer trading, Inventory management
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