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I also characterize the relation between price impact, strategic interaction, and information asymmetry. While price impact decreases as the level of information asymmetry decreases, the relation between price impact and strategic interaction is more subtle, and it depends on whether agents submit upward- or downward-sloping demand schedules. When agents submit downward-sloping demand curves, price impact decreases as the extent of strategic substitutability increases, and increases as the extent of strategic complementarity increases. Furthermore, strong interaction may mitigate or exacerbate the effect of information asymmetry on agents' price impact, depending on the slope of the inverse supply curve. The results in this chapter thus emphasize the importance of accounting for strategic interactions between market participants, when assessing their price impact in markets with asymmetric information.