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Focusing on the 2016 US money market funds (MMFs) reform, this study assesses the impact of removing rating-based rules on the behavior of regulated investors and on market prices. Difference-in-differences fund-level and security-level analyses show a positive impact of the reform on the level...
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risk weight decreases in the post-regulation period. Overall, our paper points to an important unintended consequence of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on hedge fund performance, risk, and fund flows. The data indicate that, relative to non-US hedge funds, US hedge funds that are regulated under Dodd-Frank have experienced greater decline in fund alphas, return standard deviation, and...
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We provide a model of hedge fund securing financing from a prime broker where deterioration in collateral value exacerbates counterparty risk and liquidity risk for the prime broker due to strategic actions of hedge funds. Costs of liquidity insurance and enforcing contracts determine hedge fund...
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This paper analyzes hedge fund performance, risk, and fund flows before and after the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. The data indicates that, relative to non-US hedge funds, US hedge funds that are regulated under Dodd-Frank have lower fund alphas in the post-Dodd-Frank implementation...
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then proceeds by detailing how an ill-designed policy framework, relying on supposed market approaches to regulation … – including self-regulation and credit rating agencies – enabled TBTF financial institutions to game the system and thereby …
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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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The market turmoil in March 2020 highlighted key vulnerabilities in the EU money market fund (MMF) sector. This paper assesses the effectiveness of the EU's regulatory framework from a financial stability perspective, based on a panel analysis of EU MMFs at a daily frequency. First, we find that...
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Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
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