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Axiomatic Market Making

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Authors Frank M. V. Feys
Published 2026-06-08
Source arXiv Quantitative Finance History
Identifiers arxiv:2606.09454
URL Open original source

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Why it matters

The study seeks to derive a market maker's quoting rule from axioms and separate inventory and adverse-selection contributions to the spread, providing a structural benchmark for interpreting quotes. (abstract:S1, abstract:S2, abstract:S3)

Main author claims

  • The authors report that eight axioms plus six assumptions on inventory costs imply a three-parameter quoting family with a mid-quote linear in inventory and a spread additively split into inventory and adverse-selection components. (abstract:S2, abstract:S3)
  • The authors claim that three distinct moments of the observable quoting rule identify the three parameters independently. (abstract:S4)
  • The authors further derive two structural corollaries: recovery of the latent inventory-cost function from the limit order book and a phase transition between functioning and frozen regimes. (abstract:S6)

Data, method, or discussion scope

The supplied material describes uniqueness, parameter identification, structural corollaries, and the core-versus-modular partition of the axioms within the proposed system; it is a summary of theoretical results. (abstract:S3, abstract:S4, abstract:S5, abstract:S6, abstract:S7)

Main limitations

The results are conditional on the stated axioms and inventory-cost assumptions, and the abstract provides no market-data validation, so empirical fit of the quoting family cannot be judged here. (abstract:S3, abstract:S7, abstract:S8)

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