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Contents
  1. AI trading and market efficiency Correlated information technologies and a collusion benchmark
  2. Question and scope
  3. A competitive information benchmark
  4. A fully specified repeated dealer benchmark
  5. Identification and the unresolved adoption problem
  6. Completion Estimate
  7. References

AI trading and market efficiency Correlated information technologies and a collusion benchmark

Question and scope

The target is the effect of AI trading on price accuracy, market quality and strategic conduct under a specified adoption intervention. This attempt separates two tractable mechanisms: replacing independent information with a correlated technology, and sustaining dealer markups by a repeated-game rule. It does not predict that actual learning algorithms collude or identify the causal effect of observed AI adoption.

A competitive information benchmark

A one-period asset pays $V\sim N(0,v)$ at maturity, where $v>0$. There is no further payoff innovation between the trading date and maturity, so $V$ is also the latent contemporaneous full-information fundamental. It is not observed by market makers. Discounting and risk premia are zero; the error studied below is the gap from this full-information benchmark, not from the market makers' own conditional expectation. A share $s\in[0,1]$ of fixed information-processing capacity uses AI; this intervention replaces, rather than adds to, human capacity.

For $0<s<1$, the public order-processing summaries are \[ H_s=V+\xi_H,\qquad A_s=V+Z+\xi_A, \] where $\xi_H,Z,\xi_A,V$ are independent centered Gaussians, with variances $1/[h(1-s)]$, $\rho$, $1/(as)$ and $v$, respectively. Here $a,h>0$ and $\rho\ge0$. The common component $Z$ represents correlated model error shared by the AI technology. At $s=0$ omit $A_s$; at $s=1$ omit $H_s$. Market makers observe both summaries and know their true law. Their zero-expected-profit quote is $P_s={\mathbb{E}}[V\mid H_s,A_s]$. This is an explicit nonstrategic benchmark; signals are observations, not equilibrium truthful reports by strategic traders.

Theorem (Exact pricing error and optimal capacity share): The price mean squared error is \[ M(s)={\mathbb{E}}(P_s-V)^2= \left[v^{-1}+h(1-s)+\frac{as}{1+\rho as}\right]^{-1}. \] For $\rho>0$, the minimizing share is \[ s^*={\operatorname{clip}}_{[0,1]}\left(\frac{\sqrt{a/h}-1}{\rho a}\right). \] For $\rho=0$, it is $s^*=1$ when $a>h$, $s^*=0$ when $a<h$, and every share when $a=h$. If $a>h$ but $a/(1+\rho a)^2<h$, the unique optimum is interior: increasing AI capacity improves price accuracy below $s^*$ and worsens it above $s^*$.
Proof: Conditional on $V$, the two summaries have independent errors with variances $[h(1-s)]^{-1}$ and $\rho+(as)^{-1}$. Multiplying their Gaussian densities by the prior density and completing the square in $V$ gives posterior precision $v^{-1}+h(1-s)+[\rho+(as)^{-1}]^{-1}$. The posterior mean is $P_s$ and the posterior variance is the reciprocal of this precision; it does not depend on the realized signals. Taking expectations gives the MSE formula. Its continuous extension gives the endpoints.

Minimizing $M$ is equivalent to maximizing $I(s)=h(1-s)+as/(1+\rho as)$. For $\rho>0$, $I'(s)=-h+a/(1+\rho as)^2$ and $I''(s)=-2\rho a^2/(1+\rho as)^3<0$. Solving $I'=0$ and clipping proves the optimum and the strict comparative statics. For $\rho=0$, $I$ is affine and the remaining assertions follow. ∎

The deterioration at high AI shares does not contradict the value of information: increasing $s$ removes a source of independent human information. If human capacity were instead held fixed, precision would be $v^{-1}+h+as/(1+\rho as)$, which is nondecreasing in $s$. This distinction is part of the adoption intervention and cannot be settled by a regression coefficient labeled "AI share."

Proposition (Misspecifying the common error): Suppose market makers incorrectly set $\rho=0$ when forming their quote. Let $D_0=v^{-1}+h(1-s)+as$ and $\widetilde P_s=[h(1-s)H_s+as A_s]/D_0$. Then \[ {\mathbb{E}}(\widetilde P_s-V)^2=D_0^{-1}+\rho\left(\frac{as}{D_0}\right)^2. \] In particular, as nominal AI precision $a\to\infty$ at a fixed $s>0$, this error tends to $\rho$, whereas the correctly specified posterior error tends to $[v^{-1}+h(1-s)+\rho^{-1}]^{-1}$ for $\rho>0$.
Proof: Expand $\widetilde P_s-V$ as a linear combination of the independent variables $V,\xi_H,\xi_A,Z$. With $\rho=0$ the sum of its variance terms is $D_0^{-1}$, either by direct multiplication or the posterior calculation above. The additional independent $Z$ term has coefficient $as/D_0$, giving the formula. Taking limits proves the last claim. No excess trading profit or collusive behavior is required for this error. ∎

A fully specified repeated dealer benchmark

Consider a different market with a public asset value and identical risk-neutral dealers. One unit of a trading service is demanded each period. Its marginal resource cost is $c\ge0$ and customers will pay up to $\bar p>c$. There are $n\ge2$ dealers. Simultaneous quotes lie in $[c,\bar p]$; the lowest quote wins, and ties divide demand equally. Quotes and allocations are publicly observed, payoffs are price less cost times allocated demand, and dealers discount future periods by $\delta\in[0,1)$. Fundamentals and inventory risk are constant. The one-period competitive benchmark has every dealer quote $c$, earning zero.

Fix $p^H\in(c,\bar p]$. The following deterministic automaton is completely specified: start in state C; in C quote $p^H$; remain in C only if every observed quote equals $p^H$; after any other quote enter state P forever; in P quote $c$. It has no training stage or exploration. It is a candidate algorithmic policy whose incentives can be checked, not a claim about reinforcement-learning convergence.

Theorem (An exact excess-markup equilibrium): The stated automaton profile is a subgame-perfect equilibrium if and only if $\delta\ge1-1/n$. On its cooperative path the spread over resource cost is $p^H-c$ and joint per-period profit is $p^H-c$, strictly above the competitive benchmark despite identical information, costs and risk.
Proof: In punishment state P, quoting above $c$ yields no sales while quoting $c$ yields zero profit, so no deviation is profitable. In state C, the continuation value from cooperation is $(p^H-c)/[n(1-\delta)]$. A first deviation above $p^H$ earns zero now and thereafter. A first deviation below $p^H$ earns at most $p^H-c$ now and zero thereafter. Thus $1/[n(1-\delta)]\ge1$ makes every first deviation weakly unprofitable. Any deviating strategy either never first deviates, giving the same payoff, or has such a first date, so this check proves sequential optimality after every public history.

Conversely if $1/[n(1-\delta)]<1$, choose a sufficiently small $\eta>0$ with $p^H-\eta\ge c$ and $(p^H-c-\eta)>(p^H-c)/[n(1-\delta)]$. Undercutting by $\eta$ gives a profitable deviation. The profit and spread expressions on the cooperative path follow from equal division of the unit demand. ∎

This theorem makes the benchmark behind "collusion" explicit. It provides no inference that high observed profits imply this automaton: unobserved costs, differentiated services or risk-bearing could alter the competitive counterfactual. Nor does a low pricing MSE rule out the markup equilibrium, since the asset fundamental in this example is public and correctly known.

Identification and the unresolved adoption problem

With observed fundamental realizations, the first model's MSE is estimable at a given share, but the causal curve additionally requires the specified replacement intervention and stable $a,h,\rho,v$. Correlation may change with training-data overlap or vendor concentration. Strategic orders would require a new signal-extraction equilibrium. Private adoption incentives, capital allocation, learning stability and out-of-sample adaptation have not been derived here.

The Bank of England's official research agenda was checked, especially its financial-system discussion of algorithmic trading, market dynamics and technological innovation. It motivates the subject; it does not supply the Gaussian model, the automaton or an empirical collusion conclusion. All mathematical claims used here are proved above.

Completion Estimate

24%

This is a post hoc, heuristic estimate for the full catalogue target. The attempt derives exact pricing errors under correlated AI information and a precise repeated-dealer markup equilibrium. It does not derive learning dynamics or identify the adoption intervention with endogenous strategic responses, spreads, volume, and disruption losses in the full market model.

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