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We examine the financial conditions of dealers that participated in two of the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort (LOLR) facilities - the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) and the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) - that provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09....
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This primer provides a detailed description of the GCF Repo ® Service, a financial service provided by the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation. The primer is composed of an introductory note and two separate papers. The first paper focuses on the clearance and settlement of GCF Repo. These...
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While the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) broadens the regulatory reach to reduce systemic risks to the U.S. financial system, it does not address some important risks that could migrate to or emanate from entities outside the federal safety net. At the same time, it limits the types of interventions by...
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the new Basel III regulation. In our model, banks hold tradable and nontradable assets. Nontradable assets are subject to …
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We study how monetary policy affects the funding composition of the banking sector. When monetary tightening reduces the retail deposit supply owing to, for example, a decrease in bank reserves or in money demand, banks try to substitute the deposit outflows with more wholesale funding in order...
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To combat the financial crisis that intensified in the fall of 2008, the Federal Reserve injected a substantial amount of liquidity into the banking system. The resulting increase in reserve balances exerted downward price pressure in the federal funds market, and the effective federal funds...
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We construct a model in which bank capital regulation and financial innovation interact. Innovation takes the form of … different capital charges, a process that captures some stylized features of structured finance. Regulation is motivated by the … divergence of private and social interests in future profits. Capital regulation lowers bank profits and may induce banks to …
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We study regression-based estimators for beta representations of dynamic asset pricing models with affine and exponentially affine pricing kernel specifications. These estimators extend static cross-sectional asset pricing estimators to settings where prices of risk vary with observed state...
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We document the reaction of money market fund (MMF) investors and portfolio managers to a new SEC regulation that came … into effect in October 2016. This regulation forces all prime and municipal MMFs to adopt a system of redemption gates and … by the new regulation, as opposed to traditional flight-to-safety motives. Third, the outflow from prime and muni MMFs …
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This paper examines market liquidity in the post-crisis era, in light of concerns that regulatory changes might have reduced banks' ability and willingness to make markets. We begin with a discussion of the broader trading environment, including a discussion of regulations and their potential...
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