This paper models the important role that repurchase agreements (repos) play in bond market intermediation. Not only do repos allow dealers to finance their activities, but they also increase dealers' ability to satisfy levered client demands without having to adjust their holdings of risky...

The convention in calculating trading costs in corporate bond markets is to assume that dealers provide liquidity to non-dealers (customers) and calculate average bid-ask spreads that customers pay dealers. We show that customers often provide liquidity in corporate bond markets, and thus,...

We model the role that repos play in bond market intermediation. Not only do repos allow dealers to finance their activities, but also enable dealers to source assets without taking ownership. When the asset trades with repo specialness, borrowing the asset is more expensive, resulting in higher...