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Session Overview
Session
Track T2-4: Microstructure
Time:
Tuesday, 21/May/2024:
11:30am - 12:15pm

Session Chair: Briana Chang, UW Madison
Discussant: Mao Ye, Cornell University
Location: Room 619


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Who Is Minding the Store? Order Routing and Competition in Retail Trade Execution

Xing Huang1, Philippe Jorion2, Mina Lee3, Christopher Schwarz2

1Washington University in St. Louis; 2UC Irvine; 3Federal Reserve Board

Using 150,000 actual trades, we examine competition among wholesalers, to which brokers route orders from their retail investors. We find that each broker's wholesaler execution prices have substantial dispersion and are persistent. However, most brokers do not adjust their routing even when they are sending more orders to higher-cost wholesalers. We also observe that the entry of a new wholesaler improves other wholesalers' execution quality. Finally, we present a stylized model that illustrates how brokers’ limited response to execution allows wholesalers to exercise their market power. Overall, our findings are inconsistent with perfect competition.


Huang-Who Is Minding the Store Order Routing and Competition-570.pdf


 
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