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China’s NTB Market: A Liquidity Dilemma

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This paper introduces China’s New Third Board Market (the NTB market) and tests the market-making system in the role of improving market liquidity. The NTB Market is the main part of China’s OTC market, established in 2006. In comparing with China’s Main Board Market and the Second Board Market, it attracts a lot of start-up companies that need financing with less strict listing requirements. Meanwhile, it is full of opportunities and challenges that appeal to numerous securities traders and investors with the rapid development momentum. Since its establishment, the NTB Market has been stuck in the lack of liquidity. The authority of the NTB Market introduced market maker system, so as to solve the problem of liquidity. Using the difference-in-difference method (DID method), the market maker system has been proved to make little contribution to improving the stock liquidity. Although the problem of liquidity is difficult to solve in short term, the NTB Market is full of opportunities for all kinds of participants definitely.

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Correspondence to Yumeng Li.

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This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 71572093.

This paper was recommended for publication by Editor WANG Shouyang.

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Li, Y., Meng, X., Zhang, Y. et al. China’s NTB Market: A Liquidity Dilemma. J Syst Sci Complex 31, 493–507 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-017-6045-4

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