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Intermediary market power and capital constraints / by Jason Allen and Milena Wittwer.FB3-5/2023-51E-PDF

"We examine how intermediary capitalization affects asset prices in a framework that allows for intermediary market power. We introduce a model in which capital-constrained intermediaries buy or trade an asset in an imperfectly competitive market, and we show that weaker capital constraints lead to both higher prices and intermediary markups. In exchange markets, this results in reduced market liquidity, while in primary markets it leads to higher auction revenues at an implicit cost of larger price distortion. Using data from Canadian Treasury auctions, we demonstrate how our framework can quantify these effects by linking asset demand to individual intermediaries' balance sheet information"--Abstract, page ii.

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Department/Agency
  • Bank of Canada, issuing body.
TitleIntermediary market power and capital constraints / by Jason Allen and Milena Wittwer.
Series title
  • Staff working paper = Document de travail du personnel, 1701-9397 ; 2023-51
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • ISSN assigned to different series.
  • "Last updated: October 4, 2023."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-39).
  • Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2023.
  • ©2023
Author / Contributor
  • Allen, Jason, author.
Description1 online resource (ii, 39, 20 pages) : illustrations.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2023-51E-PDF
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