Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1997
Keywords
Secondary securities market, Corporate equities, Speculative trading, Liquidity trading, Portfolio balancing, Disagreement-based trading, Information arbitrage, Transactions costs, Speculation
Disciplines
Securities Law
Abstract
Computer network technology promises to revolutionize the secondary securities market and particularly to reduce dramatically the marginal costs associated with trading corporate equities. Lowering transactions costs usually is presumed to increase trader welfare. Certain unique characteristics of the secondary securities market suggest, however, that reducing the marginal costs associated with trading stocks may have the perverse and counterintuitive effect of decreasing investor welfare. Policymakers should consider this possibility as they respond to the market's rapid evolution.
Recommended Citation
Stout, Lynn A., "Technology, Transactions Costs, and Investor Welfare: Is a Motley Fool Born Every Minute?" (1997). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 446.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/446
Publication Citation
Published in: Washington University Law Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 2 (Summer 1977).
Comments
This article was written prior to the author's affiliation with Cornell Law School.