Arbeitspapier

Discriminatory pricing of over-the-counter derivatives

New regulatory data reveal extensive discriminatory pricing in the foreign exchange derivatives market, in which dealer-banks and their non-financial clients trade over-the-counter. After controlling for contract characteristics, dealer fixed effects, and market conditions, we find that the client at the 75th percentile of the spread distribution pays an average of 30 pips over the market mid-price, compared to competitive spreads of less than 2.5 pips paid by the bottom 25% of clients. Higher spreads are paid by less sophisticated clients. However, trades on multi-dealer request-for-quote platforms exhibit competitive spreads regardless of client sophistication, thereby eliminating discriminatory pricing.

ISBN
978-92-95210-48-6
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ESRB Working Paper Series ; No. 61

Classification
Wirtschaft
Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation
Subject
dealer spreads
information rents
RFQ platforms
corporate hedging

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hau, Harald
Hoffmann, Peter
Langfield, Sam
Timmer, Yannick
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), European System of Financial Supervision
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2017

DOI
doi:10.2849/33277
Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hau, Harald
  • Hoffmann, Peter
  • Langfield, Sam
  • Timmer, Yannick
  • European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), European System of Financial Supervision

Time of origin

  • 2017

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