The value of intermediation in the stock market
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Author(s)
Di Maggio, Marco
Egan, Mark
Franzoni, Francesco
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We estimate a structural model of broker choice to quantitatively decompose the value that institutional investors attach to broker services. Studying over 300 million institutional equity trades, we find that investors are sensitive to both explicit and implicit trading costs and are willing to pay a premium for access to formal and informal research. Formal and informal research account for roughly half of the value generated by brokers. In addition, we use our model to investigate soft dollar arrangements, where research and execution services are bundled, and find that such arrangements allow hedge funds and mutual funds to underreport management fees by 10%.
Date Issued
2022-08
Date Acceptance
2021-06-30
Citation
Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 145 (2), pp.208-233
ISSN
0304-405X
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
208
End Page
233
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Financial Economics
Volume
145
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
Copyright © Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.08.020
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-09-04