How much market making does a market need?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985556%3A_____%2F18%3A00496577" target="_blank" >RIV/67985556:_____/18:00496577 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpr.2018.44" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpr.2018.44</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpr.2018.44" target="_blank" >10.1017/jpr.2018.44</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How much market making does a market need?
Original language description
We consider a simple model for the evolution of a limit order book in which limit orders of unit size arrive according to independent Poisson processes. The frequencies of buy limit orders below a given price level, respectively sell limit orders above a given level, are described by fixed demand and supply functions. Buy (respectively, sell) limit orders that arrive above (respectively, below) the current ask (respectively, bid) price are converted into market orders. There is no cancellation of limit orders. This model has been independently reinvented by several authors, including Stigler (1964), and Luckock (2003), who calculated the equilibrium distribution of the bid and ask prices. We extend the model by introducing market makers that simultaneously place both a buy and sell limit order at the current bid and ask price. We show that introducing market makers reduces the spread, which in the original model was unrealistically large. In particular, we calculate the exact rate at which market makers need to place orders in order to close the spread completely. If this rate is exceeded, we show that the price settles at a random level that, in general, does not correspond to the Walrasian equilibrium price.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10101 - Pure mathematics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-08819S" target="_blank" >GA15-08819S: Stochastic Processes in Infinite Dimensional Spaces</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Applied Probability
ISSN
0021-9002
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
55
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
667-681
UT code for WoS article
000450285700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85056772335