D'Amico, Stefania; Fan, Roger; Kitzul, Yuriy - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2013
In the repo market, forward agreements are security-specific (i.e., there are no deliverable substitutes), which makes it an ideal place to measure the value of fluctuations in a security's available supply. In this study, we quantify the scarcity value of Treasury collateral by estimating the...