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| Title: | | Strategic trading and manipulation with spot market power  |
| Authors: | | Muermann, Alexander Shore, Stephen H. |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CFS Working Paper 2006/07 |
| Abstract: | | When a spot market monopolist has a position in a corresponding futures market, he has an incentive to deviate from the spot market optimum to make this position more profitable. Rational futures market makers take this into account when setting prices. We show that the monopolist, by randomizing his futures market position, can strategically exploit his market power at the expense of other futures market participants. Furthermore, traders without market power can manipulate futures prices by hiding their orders behind the monopolists strategic trades. The moral hazard problem stemming from spot market power thus provides a venue for strategic trading and manipulation that parallels the adverse selection problem stemming from inside information. |
| Subjects: | | Strategic Trading Manipulation Spot Market Power |
| JEL: | | D82 G13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CFS Working Paper Series, Universität Frankfurt a. M.
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