(b) "... One can discuss the economics of market making in terms of three kinds of transactors who confront the market m

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(b) "... One can discuss the economics of market making in terms of three kinds of transactors who confront the market maker: i), transactors possessing special information; (ii), "liquidity-motivated" transactors who have no special information but merely want to convert securities into cash... (iii) transactors acting on information which they believe has not yet been fully discounted in the market price but which in fact has.... The market maker always loses to transactors in the first category.... i. If the market maker is engaging in SELL transactions (at the ASK price) against two types of traders in the market - liquidity traders (with a probability 1 - 7) and informed investors with a probability , derive a suitable expression of the ASK price for an asset ;, whose fundamental value at timet 1 is binary {V",Vassociated with the probability set {0-1.(1 - 0,-1)}. Do not make any assumptions about the probability values (8 mar ii. From your derived expression, discuss the determinants of the ASK price (6 marks) Total for Question 3: 20 marks