Conference Agenda
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MM 01: Trading and information Location: LR N0.5 (Floor 0) Session Chair: Xavier Vives, IESE Business School | |
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ID: 2119
Competition and Collusion Among Strategic Traders Who Face Uncertainty 1: University of Western Ontario, Ivey Business School; 2: University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business Conventional wisdom suggests that informed investors benefit from trading monopolistically. We show this can fail when investors face uncertainty about liquidity. In a Kyle (1985) framework, we compare profits under monopolistic and competitive equilibria when investors face uncertainty about liquidity trading volatility. While low uncertainty favors coordination, sufficiently high uncertainty reverses this: an individual investor's competitive profits can exceed total monopolistic profits. Endogenizing the collusion decision generates novel predictions: small increases in liquidity uncertainty can cause discrete jumps in trading volume, price volatility, and price informativeness.
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