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The Microstructure of European Bond Markets

Organization, Price Formation, and Cost of Liquidity

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  • © 2006

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  1. Volker Flögel
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-5

  3. The Organizational Structure of the Secondary Market for Federal Securities: Historically grown! Economically justified?

    Pages 7-43

  4. Interdealer versus Customer-Dealer Sphere: Information Processing in Decentralized Multiple-Dealership Markets

    Pages 45-87

  5. Institutional Trading Costs in European Corporate Bond Markets

    Pages 89-129

  6. Summary, Conclusion, and Further Research

    Pages 131-134

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 135-142
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The volumes outstanding in bond markets are by far larger than in equity markets. Despite this fact, most of the research on the microstructure of financial market s focuses on equity markets. This is even more surprising taking into account that (i) the microstructure of a financial market has a strong influence on its ability to allocate resources efficiently, and (ii) that the results obtained from equity markets cannot be applied to bond markets. The thesis addresses open questions related to the microstructure of bond markets and presents three empirical studies. In the first paper, a unique dataset of transactions in German federal securities is analyzed to address the question whether the historical grown structure of different coexisting trading segments - exchange trading, bilateral OTC trading, and brokered OTC trading - can be economically justified. There is evidence that the different trading segments are indeed regarded as non-interchangeable by the market participants. The second part of the thesis focuses on the price formation in customer-dealer and the interdealer bond markets by applying cointegration econometrics to a dataset of high fi-equency quotes for EMU government bonds. While the customer-dealer market is still very fragmented and intransparent, trading in the interdealer market concentrates on a smaller number of more transparent electronic trading systems like EuroMTS.

About the author

Dr. Volker Flögel promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Lutz Johanning am Stiftungslehrstuhl Asset Management der European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. Er ist derzeit als Portfolio Manager für die Union PanAgora Asset Management GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, tätig.

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