scholarly journals MARKET STRUCTURE, SECURITY PRICES, AND INFORMATIONAL EFFICIENCY

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNIFER HUANG ◽  
JIANG WANG
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Equity Premium ◽  
Price Volatility ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Informational Efficiency ◽  
Derivative Securities ◽  
Security Prices ◽  
Market Structures

We consider an economy with an incomplete securities market and heterogeneously informed investors. Each investor trades in the market to hedge the risk to his endowment and to speculate on future security payoffs using his private information. We examine the efficiency of the securities market in allocating risk and transmitting information under different market structures, as defined by the set of securities traded in the market. We show that the introduction of derivative securities can decrease the market's efficiency in revealing information on security payoffs, and increase the equity premium and price volatility in the market.

Informational Efficiency and Liquidity Premium as the Determinants of Capital Structure

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Chang ◽  
Xiaoyun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Informational Efficiency ◽  
Information Revelation ◽  
Security Prices ◽  
Liquidity Premium ◽  
Maximum Information ◽  
Informed Traders ◽  
Operating Decisions

AbstractThis paper investigates how a firm’s capital structure choice affects the informational efficiency of its security prices in the secondary markets. We identify two new determinants of a firm’s capital structure policy: the liquidity (adverse selection) premium due to investors’ anticipated losses to informed trading, and operating efficiency improvement due to information revelation from the firm’s security prices. We show that the capital structure decision affects traders’ incentives to acquire information and subsequently, the distribution of informed traders across debt and equity claims. When information is less imperative for improving its operating decisions, a firm issues zero or negative debt (i.e., holding excess cash reserves) in order to reduce socially wasteful information acquisition and the liquidity premium associated with it. When information is crucial for a firm’s operating decisions, the optimal debt level is one that achieves maximum information revelation at the lowest possible liquidity cost. Our model can explain why many firms consistently hold no debt. It also provides new implications for financial system design and for the relationship among leverage, liquidity premium, profitability, and the cost of information acquisition.

Investor protection, corporate governance and private information-based trading

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Teck Lye ◽  
Chee-Wooi Hooy
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Market Manipulation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Securities Laws

Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of investor protection (PROT), internal and external corporate governance (CG) on private information-based trading (PIBT). Design/methodology/approach This study uses a sample of 3,438 firms from 42 countries for the period 2002–2015 to examine the effects of the broad and specific measures of PROT, internal CG and external CG (product market competition and block ownership [BOWN]) on a more accurate measure of PIBT using regression analysis. Findings The results show that PROT and BOWN are effective in reducing PIBT. However, the specific measure of PROT (strength of PROT) is not significant in emerging markets and civil law countries. The internal CG is also significant but has a positive effect on PIBT. Research limitations/implications The results suggest that PROT law matters in the efforts to prevent PIBT. Policymakers and securities market regulators, particularly in emerging markets and civil law countries, should focus more on refining existing securities laws and enacting detailed securities rules that explicitly prevent specific market manipulation and PIBT. Originality/value This study provides evidence for the importance of specific and detailed securities rules in different market and legal environments. Furthermore, this study uses the segregated private information-based speculative trading component to accurately measure the PIBT.

Understanding & Serving Readers: The Problem of Fuzzy Market Structure

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Lacy
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Market Structures

Newspapers exist in markets that are difficult to define and serve. Market structures are beyond their control, but not beyond their understanding – and their survival will depend on how well newspapers understand.

scholarly journals Factors affecting the development of the Vietnamese derivative securities market

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Tran Quoc Thinh ◽  
Ly Hoang Anh ◽  
Nguyen Ngoc Khanh Dung
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Derivative Securities ◽  
International Integration ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
State Management ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
Survey Sample

In the context of integration, the capital market has important implications for strengthening economic resources for development. This becomes even more important as the derivative securities market has recently emerged in some countries. It is an opportunity for countries to approach many capital sources, especially foreign capital. The objective of this paper is to identify factors affecting the development of Vietnamese derivative financial markets. The paper uses exploratory factor analysis and ordinary least squares to test the model. A survey sample includes 152 managers and experts of Vietnamese derivative securities companies in 2019. The results show that the International integration factor has the same direction, while the Legal environment factor has an adverse impact on the development of the Vietnamese derivative securities market. Therefore, Vietnamese regulatory bodies should amend some laws to create stability in the legal corridor, and state management agencies in the country need the orientation and the international integration strategy to attract financial resources for the development of Vietnam’s economy.

Market Structure Matters

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Market Structure ◽  
Market Structures

Richard Roll observed that continuous markets are more volatile than other market structures. If it is true that continuous markets induce volatility, then unless we change that market structure, we will continue to be plagued with sporadic bursts of nonfunctional, uninformative volatility. This article looks to the underlying reasons and suggests a more serviceable market structure.

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