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Author:Starr, Ross M. 

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Liquidity of the Treasury bill market and the term structure of interest rates

Research Working Paper , Paper 94-02

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Market makers' supply and pricing of financial market liquidity

This study models the bid-ask spread in financial markets as a function of asset price variability and order flow. The market-maker is characterized as passively accepting orders to buy and to sell a security at the market's prevailing price (plus or minus half the bid-ask spread). The bid-ask spread adjusts to cover market-makers' average costs. The bid-ask spread then varies positively with: the security's price volatility, the volatility of order flow, and the absolute value of the market-maker's net inventory position. Each of these variables increases average cost and hence is priced in ...
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