[...]A key finding of our work is that for small auction sizes,TIO interest rates are fairly comparable to MBS repo rates forterm lengths of five days or more. However, shorter termlengths result in the Treasury receiving lower TIO rates relativeto market rates. We also observe a negative...

The 1990s were characterized by substantial financial sectorconsolidation across a large number of industrializedcountries...

[...]In our view, this apparently surprising immunity of the U.S.economy to the Asia crisis reflects the fact that the original wayof thinking about the crisis was flawed. First, it focused only ondemand-side channels and ignored the supply side. Second, thedepreciation of the Asian currencies...

This paper considers the determination of aggregate price level under dispersed information.A Central Bank sets policy in response to its noisy measure of the price level, andeach agent makes its decisions by observing a subset of data. Information revealed to theagents and the bank is...

As derivatives markets have grown, thescope of financial intermediation hasevolved beyond credit intermediation tocover a wide variety of risks. Financialderivatives allow dealers to intermediate the risk managementneeds of their customers by unbundling customerexposures and reallocating them...

The textbook view of the monetary transmissionmechanism rests on the central bank’s ability tomanipulate the overnight interest rate by controlling thereserve supply, followed by a rational-expectations mechanismthat ensures that movements in the overnight rate reverberateinto longer maturity...

Monetary policy operating procedures have long beendebated within the Federal Reserve and amongmonetary economists at large. For instance, economists havedisagreed about whether a central bank should utilize bankreserves or the interest rate as the policy instrument. For thetime being at least,...