TY  - JOUR
AU  - Duffie,Darrell
AU  - Garleanu,Nicolae
AU  - Pedersen,Lasse Heje
TI  - Over-the-Counter Markets
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10816
PY  - 2004
Y2  - October 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10816
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10816.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Darrell Duffie
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-5015
Tel: 650/723-1976
Fax: 650/725-7979
E-Mail: duffie@stanford.edu

Nicolae B. Garleanu
Haas School of Business
F628
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (1) 510 642 3421
Fax: (1) 510 643 1420
E-Mail: garleanu@haas.berkeley.edu

Lasse H. Pedersen
NYU Stern Finance
44 West Fourth Street
Suite 9-190
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212/998-0359
Fax: 212/995-4233
E-Mail: lpederse@stern.nyu.edu
AB  - We study how intermediation and asset prices in over-the-counter markets are affected by illiquidity associated with search and bargaining. We compute explicitly the prices at which investors trade with each other as well as marketmakers' bid and ask prices in a dynamic model with strategic agents. Bid-ask spreads are lower if investors can more easily find other investors, or have easier access to multiple marketmakers. With a monopolistic marketmaker, bid-ask spreads are higher if investors have easier access to the marketmaker. We characterize endogenous search and welfare, and discuss empirical implications.
ER  -