Digital Financial Services Go a Long Way: Transaction Costs and Financial Inclusion
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Standard models for nancial markets are based on the simplifying assumption that trading orders can be given and executed in continuous time with no friction. This assumption is clearly a strong idealization of the reality. In particular, securities should not be described by a single price but by a bid and ask curve. As a rst approximation, one may assume that the bid and ask prices do not d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AEA Papers and Proceedings
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2574-0768,2574-0776
DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181013