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Flaunt the imperfections : information, entanglements, and the regulation of London’s Alternative Investment Market

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2021
Author
Roscoe, Philip
Willman, Paul
Funder
The Leverhulme Trust
Grant ID
RF-2016-078
Keywords
Market design
Efficient market hypothesis
Harrison White
Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
Market imperfections
HB Economic Theory
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The literature on financial market design is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), advocating transparency, liquidity, and universal information with a view to capturing efficient prices. We provide a counterfactual: the 1995 formation of AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s junior market. AIM employs an alternative mode of market organization based on market imperfections. Our empirical study shows how AIM draws on reputation, social relationships and practitioner knowledge to organise market governance. We argue that the market’s design should be understood as capable of producing informationally efficient prices. We characterize AIM as having a ‘Whitean’ structure, compared with the ‘Fama’ structure of main markets. We conclude that the ‘Whitean’ producer market is a viable design option for financial markets.
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Roscoe , P & Willman , P 2021 , ' Flaunt the imperfections : information, entanglements, and the regulation of London’s Alternative Investment Market ' , Economy and Society , vol. 50 , no. 4 , pp. 565-589 . https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1934306
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Economy and Society
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1934306
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0308-5147
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Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust under Grant RF-2016-78.
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