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We show that Treasury bill auction procedures create classes of price-equivalent discount rates for bills with fewer than seventy-two days to maturity. We argue that it is inefficient for market participants to bid at a discount rate that is not the minimum rate in its class. The inefficiency of...
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Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives.> .
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Remarks at the Third Annual Connecticut Bank and Trust Company Economic Outlook Breakfast, Hartford, Connecticut.
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Remarks at Global Interdependence Center Central Banking Series Event, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used …, auctions will become a standard feature of all recent CDS contracts from now on. In this paper, we examine all of the CDS … auctions conducted to date and evaluate their efficacy by comparing the auction outcomes to prices of the underlying bonds in …
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We find clear demographic and ability effects on bidding in common value auctions: inexperienced women are much more …
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We show that Treasury bill auction procedures create classes of price-equivalent discount rates for bills with fewer than seventy-two days to maturity. We argue that it is inefficient for market participants to bid at a discount rate that is not the minimum rate in its class. The inefficiency of...
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We provide empirical evidence for the existence, magnitude, and economic impact of stigma associated with banks borrowing from the Federal Reserve’s discount window facility. We find that, during the height of the financial crisis, banks were willing to pay an average premium of at least 37...
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Securities Lending Facility, and the disposition of the Maiden Lane II portfolio. These auctions differed from one another in …, compare, and provide a rationale for the mechanics of the different auctions implemented by the Federal Reserve during the …
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