Do Dark Pools Harm Price Discovery?

A-Tier
Journal: The Review of Financial Studies
Year: 2014
Volume: 27
Issue: 3
Pages: 747-789

Score contribution per author:

4.022 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Dark pools are equity trading systems that do not publicly display orders. Dark pools offer potential price improvements but do not guarantee execution. Informed traders tend to trade in the same direction, crowd on the heavy side of the market, and face a higher execution risk in the dark pool, relative to uninformed traders. Consequently, exchanges are more attractive to informed traders, and dark pools are more attractive to uninformed traders. Under certain conditions, adding a dark pool alongside an exchange concentrates price-relevant information into the exchange and improves price discovery. Improved price discovery coincides with reduced exchange liquidity.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:rfinst:v:27:y:2014:i:3:p:747-789.
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-29