How does trading in one venue affect the quoting strategies of market-makers in other venues? We develop a two-venue imperfect competition model in which market-makers face quadratic costs to absorb shocks. Non-constant marginal costs imply that absorbing a shock in one venue simultaneously...

Who provides liquidity in modern, electronic limit order book, markets? While agency trading can be constrained by conflicts of interest and information asymmetry between customers and traders, prop traders are likely to be less constrained and thus better positioned to carry inventory risk....