Dealers are intermediaries between different market segments. A dealer typically maintains a network of customer relationships (B2C) and simultaneously participates in an inter-dealer market (B2B) which allows him to manage his inventory. We represent this market interface role in a new dynamic...

European sovereign bond trading occurs in a highly liquid interdealer market and a parallel dealer-customer market in which buy-side financial institutions request quotes from primary dealers. Synchronized price data from both market segments allow us to compare market quality. We find that...

Macroeconomic models of equity and exchange rate returns perform poorly. The proportion of daily returns that these models explain is essentially zero. Instead of relying on macroeconomic determinants, we model equity price and exchange rate behavior based on a concept from microstructure -...

Macroeconomic models of equity returns perform poorly. The proportion of daily index returns that these models explain is essentially zero. Instead of relying on macroeconomic determinants, our model includes a concept from microstructure - order flow. Order flow is the proximate determinant of...

This paper presents evidence that the bid-ask spreads in euro rates increased relative to the corresponding bid-ask spreads in the German mark (DM) prior to the creation of the currency union. This comes with a decrease in transaction volume in the euro rates relative to the previous DM rates....