portfolios, but liquidity comes at a cost: inflation. The OTC market serves as a secondary asset market, in which agents can … rebalance their positions depending on their liquidity needs. Hence, a contribution of our paper is to provide a micro … value because they help agents avoid the inflation tax. -- monetary-search models ; liquidity ; asset prices ; over …

Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? We employ data from … spreads. In particular, market liquidity increases the most for stocks with the largest increase in competition among DMMs …