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Organizing Equity Exchanges

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In the last years equity exchanges have diversified their operations into business areas such as derivatives trading, post-trading services, and software sales. Securities trading and post-trading are subject to economies of scale and scope. The integration of these functions into one institution ensures efficiency by economizing on transactions costs.

Using balanced panel data from major equity exchanges over the period 2005-2007, we examine empirically the presence of economies of scale in securities trading. Moreover, we analyze the impact of vertical integration of trading, clearing, and settlement, the impact of the size of an exchange, and the impact of diversification on the profitability of exchanges. The evidence confirms that a large number of transactions leads to low costs per trade. The evidence shows that the profitability of equity exchanges is highest for vertically integrated exchanges and that diversification and size have a negative impact on their profitability.

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  1. Goethe-University Frankfurt, Chair of e-Finance, Germany

    Torsten Schaper

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  1. College of Business, Illinois State University, IL 61790, Normal, USA

    Matthew L. Nelson

  2. College of Business, University of Illinois, IL, 61820, Champaign, USA

    Michael J. Shaw

  3. College of Business and Public Administration, Drake University, IA 50311, Des Moines, USA

    Troy J. Strader

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Schaper, T. (2009). Organizing Equity Exchanges. In: Nelson, M.L., Shaw, M.J., Strader, T.J. (eds) Value Creation in E-Business Management. AMCIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03132-8_17

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