Abstract
This paper develops a model of securities market with a strategic trader who is potentially better informed than the public. Unlike in the Kyle model (Kyle (1985) and Back (1992)), market makers do not have perfect information about whether the strategic trader is informed. With common prior beliefs, not only do market makers need to update their value estimate as in the Kyle model, but they also have to update their estimate of the probability that the strategic trader has private information based on the observed cumulative order flow. The dynamics of this probability estimate causes the pricing rule to be stochastic, and so do the market depth and price volatility. The expected profit of the strategic trader is lower with lower prior probability that she is informed, thus, the model is robust.
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