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This paper examines the effects of the Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) on the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The particular question investigated is whether the announcements and operations of the TAF are associated with downward shifts of the LIBOR; such an association...
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approach allows computationally fast estimation of term structure models with a large number of pricing factors. Even though we … structure of interest rates with small pricing errors compared to commonly reported specifications, both in and out …
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; congestion ; asset pricing …
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estimate prices of risk using a cross-sectional asset pricing approach and show that U.S. dollar funding liquidity forecasts … liquidity channel in an intertemporal equilibrium pricing model where the “risk appetite” of dollar-funded intermediaries … the more familiar “carry trade” channel. -- Asset pricing ; financial intermediaries ; exchange rates …
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yield curves. The model features stochastic covariation of inflation with the real pricing kernel, enabling us to extract a … ; asset pricing ; monetary policy …
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This paper assesses the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market, using newly available tick data from the BrokerTec electronic trading platform. Examining trading activity, bid-ask spreads, and depth for on-the-run two-, three-, five-, ten-, and thirty-year Treasury securities, we...
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We develop a new likelihood-based approach to signing trades in the absence of quotes. This approach is equally efficient as the existing Markov-chain Monte Carlo methods, but more than ten times faster. It can address the occurrence of multiple trades at the same time and allows for analysis of...
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derivatives are traded primarily over the counter. I capture the limits of arbitrage in this market in a simple asset-pricing …-bearing capacity have particularly strong forecasting power for energy returns, both in sample and out of sample. -- Asset pricing …
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Fluctuations in the aggregate balance sheets of financial intermediaries provide a window on the joint determination of asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates. We document that financial intermediary balance sheets contain strong predictive power for future excess returns on a broad set of...
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The Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) was introduced by the Federal Reserve to promote liquidity in the financing markets for Treasury and other collateral. We evaluate one aspect of the program — the extent to which it has narrowed repo spreads between Treasury collateral and less...
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