Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 What is This Book About? -- 0.2 Why Should We Care? -- 0.3 Some Puzzles -- 0.4 The Three Dimensions of Liquidity -- 0.4.1 Market Liquidity -- 0.4.2 Funding Liquidity -- 0.4.3 Monetary Liquidity -- PART ONE: Institutions -- 1 Trading Mechanics...

This article presents a model of information monitoring and market making in a dealership market. We model how intensively dealers monitor public information to avoid being picked off by professional day traders when monitoring is costly. Price competition among dealers is hampered by their...