Privileged Traders and Asset Market Efficiency: A Laboratory Study

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Year: 1993
Volume: 28
Issue: 4
Pages: 515-534

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

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

Abstract

The 39 experiments reported here examine the impact on trading profits and on market performance of awarding special trading privileges to some traders and not others. In call market experiments, the last-mover and orderflow access privileges are both modestly profitable and neither impairs market performance. In continuous market experiments, quicker access to orderflow information is quite profitable and more detailed access is possibly profitable; both privileges seem to enhance market performance slightly. By contrast, privileged marketmaking is extremely profitable and greatly impairs market performance.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:cup:jfinqa:v:28:y:1993:i:04:p:515-534_00
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25