A large number of financial assets are traded in both exchanges and over-the-counter markets (i.e., centralized and decentralized markets, CM and DM hereafter, respectively). Moreover, as documented by Biais and Green (2019), the 20th century has witnessed a secular migration of asset trade from...

A large number of financial assets are traded in both exchanges and over-the-counter markets (i.e., centralized and decentralized markets, CM and DM hereafter, respectively). Moreover, as documented by Biais and Green (2019), the 20th century has witnessed a secular migration of asset trade from...

No. This paper overturns the conventional wisdom in a dynamic model of financial markets where information is linked intertemporally: more information today affects the volatility of resale asset prices in the future. This dynamic complementarity gives rise to multiple information equilibria....

A large number of financial assets are traded in both exchanges and over-the-counter markets (i.e., centralized and decentralized markets, CM and DM hereafter, respectively). Moreover, the last century has witnessed the secular migration of asset trading from CM to DM. To this end, this paper...