More generally, a decrease in connectedness significantly distorts the distribution ofequilibrium prices in the peripheral market relative to the distribution of prices that wouldbe observed if trading were centralized. In particular, the distribution of prices in theperipheral market is shifted to the right (left) if peripheral dealers’ aggregate inventoryposition is negative (positive). This shift occurs because unconnected peripheral dealerstrade above the core market price in this case. Moreover, for the same reason the distribu-tion of prices becomes multimodal, the additional modes reflecting the transaction pricesof dealers with worse bargaining positions.