He, Yinghua, Nielsson, Ulf, Guo, Hong and Yang, Jiong (2014) Subscribing to Transparency. Journal of Banking and Finance, 44. pp. 189-206.

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Abstract

The paper empirically explores how more trade transparency affects market liquidity. The analysis takes advantage of a unique setting in which the Shanghai Stock Exchange offered more trade transparency to market participants subscribing to a new software package. First, the results show that the additional data disclosure increased trading activity, but also increased transactions costs through wider bid-ask spreads. Thus, in contrast to popular policy belief, the paper finds that more transparency need not improve market liquidity. Second, the paper finds a particularly strong immediate liquidity impact accompanied by altered trading behavior, which suggests a significant impact on institutional traders subscribing relatively early. Lastly, since the effective level of market transparency is bound to depend on how many traders are subscribing to the data, the study can empirically establish the functional form between market-wide transparency and liquidity. The relationship is non-monotonic, which can explain the lack of consensus in the existing literature where each empirical study is naturally confined to specific parts of the transparency domain.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: July 2014
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: transparency, liquidity, market microstructure, market design
JEL Classification: G14 - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 16 Mar 2015 14:55
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2021 13:36
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:28923
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/16675

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