Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25473 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2006/07
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
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 monopolist's 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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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