Parlour, Christine A.; Seppi, Duane J. - In: Review of Financial Studies 16 (2003) 2, pp. 301-343
We present a microstructure model of competition for order flow between exchanges based on liquidity provision. We find that neither a pure limit order market (PLM) nor a hybrid specialist-limit order market (HM) structure is competition-proof. A PLM can always be supported in equilibrium as the...