Liu, Haoyang; Song, Zhaogang; Vickery, James - 2021
forward markets. We study the consequences of this fragmentation, showing that market liquidity endogenously concentrated in … increased the liquidity and prices of Freddie Mac MBS without measurably reducing liquidity for Fannie Mae; this was in part … to the consolidation event, in anticipation of future liquidity. Consolidation increased Freddie Mac’s fee income by …