This note integrates the models of Dewan and Mendelson (1998) (DM) and Kyle (1985), extending the DM analysis of time-based competition in financial markets to the case of endogenous liquidity. The results enable us to examine the link between information technology investments, trading...

This paper studies time-based competition in imperfect securities markets, linking IT investment decisions, information processing delays, and trading strategies. At the IT investment stage, traders trade off the cost of IT against their anticipated trading profits. At the trading stage, each...

This paper studies optimal pricing and capacity decisions for a service facility in an environment where users' delay cost is important. The model assumes a general nonlinear delay cost structure and incorporates the tradeoff between the delay cost and capacity cost. We find necessary and...