Hanson, Samuel Gregory; Malkhozov, Aytek; Venter, Gyuri - 2022
We develop and test a model in which swap spreads are determined by end users’ demand for and constrained … intermediaries’ supply of long-term interest rate swaps. Swap spreads reflect compensation both for using scarce intermediary capital … Financial Crisis when swap spreads turned negative and that this variable predicts the excess returns on swap spread trades …