Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
  
  A term used to describe the characteristic of a secondary market for a financial instrument evidenced by low transaction costs and smooth execution of trades. The spread between bid and offered prices, brokerage commissions, and taxes are the three main types of transaction costs. One of the requirements for readily marketable assets.
  
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