Verlag:
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
Zusammenfassung (übersetzt):
This survey reviews the economic thoughts about what and why do institutional market players lose because of the existing market frictions and particular financial market microstructures compared to walrasian markets. Within a unified microeconomic framework, we introduce the most common approaches of the decentralized market trading theories such as search and bargaining, middlemen and trading in networks. Then, we investigate the principal theories of the centralized trading, such as the behavior of the market makers and trading explanations related to the order driven markets. We constrain our analysis into the secondary markets. With considering the financial markets by asset classes (interbank loans and deposits, bond markets, equity markets, FX-markets and derivatives trading) the survey also identifies the currently available microstructures on the financial markets.