In 1997, the London Stock Exchange, like NASDAQ, allowed the public to compete directly with dealers in a subset of stocks through the submission of limit orders. However, unlike NASDAQ, for these stocks, London also removed the obligation of dealers to quote firm two-way prices, and became a...

This paper investigates whether dealers trading and pricing decisions are governed by their equivalent inventories (based on total returns as in Ho and Stoll, 1983 or on unhedgeable returns as in Froot and Stein, 1998) or by their ordinary inventories, as would be the case in a decentralized...

This paper examines how bond dealers use futures markets to manage the hedgeable market risk component of their core business risk exposure, and whether market quality isadversely affected by their selective risk taking activity. It also investigates the efficiency of market risk sharing within...

This paper investigates the trading behavior of major market participants - both dealers and customers - during the six-month period of a well-publicized market manipulation episode: an attempted delivery squeeze in a bond futures contract traded in London. The analyses are based on a rich...

This paper investigates whether dealer firms' trading and pricing decisions are governed by their equivalent inventories, based on total returns as in Ho and Stoll (1983) or on unhedgeable returns as in Froot and Stein (1998), or by their ordinary inventories, as would be the case in a...

This paper examines the impact of insider trading activity on the trading behaviour of dealers and on market quality. Specifically, the activity we investigate is the trading of London Stock Exchange listed equities by incumbent company directors. We find that dealers adjust their inventory...

This paper examines how bond dealers use futures markets to manage the hedgeable market risk component of their core business risk exposure, and whether market quality is adversely affected by their selective risk taking activity. It also investigates risk sharing among bond dealers in the...

This paper investigates whether dealers' trading and pricing decisions are governed by their equivalent inventories, based on total returns as in Ho and Stoll (1983) or on unhedgeable returns as in Froot and Stein (1998), or by their ordinary inventories, as would be the case in a decentralized...

Using a comprehensive data-set from the Bank of England containing the close-of-business positions of individual UK government bond dealers in each bond issue and in all related futures contracts, we examine how the dealers use futures markets to manage the risk of their spot portfolio. We find...