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A Model of Financial Market Control
Theoretical Economics · Submitted 3 May 2022
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The authors' main claim The main result shows that there is a control strategy that prevents market manipulation as a subgame perfect equilibrium outcome of the trading game.
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This study investigates the prevention of market manipulation using a price-impact model of financial market trading as a linear system. First, I define a trading game between speculators such that they implement a manipulation trading strategy that exploits momentum traders. Second, I identify market intervention by a controller (e.g., a central bank) with a control of the system. The main result shows that there is a control strategy that prevents market manipulation as a subgame perfect equilibrium outcome of the trading game. On the equilibrium path, no intervention is realized. This study also characterizes the set of manipulation-proof linear pricing rules of the system. The set is very restrictive if there is no control, while the presence of control drastically expands the set.
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| # | sentence | role | the authors' own work | states the main conclusion | strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s0 | This study investigates the prevention of market manipulation using a price-impact model of financial market trading as a linear system. | contribution 0.79 | 0.81 | 0.04 | asserted 0.87 |
| s1 | First, I define a trading game between speculators such that they implement a manipulation trading strategy that exploits momentum traders. | method 0.86 | 0.86 | 0.02 | asserted 0.95 |
| s2 | Second, I identify market intervention by a controller (e.g., a central bank) with a control of the system. | method 0.87 | 0.70 | 0.03 | asserted 0.98 |
| s3 | The main result shows that there is a control strategy that prevents market manipulation as a subgame perfect equilibrium outcome of the trading game. | result 1.00 | 0.93 | 0.97 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | On the equilibrium path, no intervention is realized. | result 0.95 | 0.85 | 0.06 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | This study also characterizes the set of manipulation-proof linear pricing rules of the system. | contribution 0.74 | 0.92 | 0.04 | asserted 0.99 |
| s6 | The set is very restrictive if there is no control, while the presence of control drastically expands the set. | result 0.87 | 0.88 | 0.09 | asserted 1.00 |
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This study investigates the prevention of market manipulation using a price-impact model of financial market trading as a linear system. First, I define a trading game between speculators such that they implement a manipulation trading strategy that exploits momentum traders. Second, I identify market intervention by a controller (e.g., a central bank) with a control of the system. The main result shows that there is a control strategy that prevents market manipulation as a subgame perfect equilibrium outcome of the trading game. On the equilibrium path, no intervention is realized. This study also characterizes the set of manipulation-proof linear pricing rules of the system. The set is very restrictive if there is no control, while the presence of control drastically expands the set.
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