The introduction of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) ended the quasi-monopoly of national exchanges in equity trading across Europe and enabled alternative platforms, so-called multilateral trading facilities (MTF), to compete for order flow. This thesis analyzes...

The first paper is co-authored with Sylvain Delalay. We examine the impact of competition between ETFs on measures of market quality of the funds. The surge in new ETF creation has for consequence that groups of competing ETFs are increasingly crowded, and investors can choose from a multitude...