Koeppl, Thorsten; Monnet, Cyril; Temzelides, Ted - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2009
-term credit that is periodically cleared by participants. We study efficient clearing arrangements for formal exchanges, where … clearing is costly, we show that it can be efficient to subsidize the clearing process for OTC transactions by charging a … higher price for the clearing of transactions in exchanges. This necessitates a clearinghouse that operates across both …