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We study daily money market mutual fund flows at the individual share class level during the crisis of September 2008. The empirical approach that we apply to this fine granularity of data brings new insights into the investor and portfolio holding characteristics that are conducive to run-risk...
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In this paper, we argue that bank-sponsored prime institutional money market funds (PI-MMFs) are different from non-bank-sponsored PI-MMFs. This difference can arise because the sponsoring bank holding companies (BHCs) can extend shadow insurance to ailing affiliated MMFs. We hypothesize that...
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Using the lead underwriter of a bond issue as a proxy for the market maker of the bond and credit default swap (CDS) as … a measure of financial conditions, this paper shows that a bond's liquidity is positively related to the financial … conditions of its market maker. In particular, controlling for other bond characteristics and market wide liquidity, bonds whose …
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investors lack the basic tools for evaluating more complex structures and liquidity costs; this, in turn, leaves room for …
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are vulnerable to liquidity pressures in both their loan origination and servicing activities, and we document that this … sector in aggregate appears to have minimal resources to bring to bear in a stress scenario. We show how the same liquidity …
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We use confidential and novel data to measure the benefit to broker-dealers of being affiliated with a bank holding company and the resulting access to internal sources of funding. We accomplish this by comparing the balance sheets of broker-dealers that are associated with bank holding...
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We use confidential and novel data to measure the benefit to broker-dealers of being affiliated with a bank holding company and the resulting access to internal sources of funding. We accomplish this by comparing the balance sheets of broker-dealers that are associated with bank holding...
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The liquidity strains that contributed to the meltdown of the mortgage market in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) re … estate investment trusts (REITs) on short-term funding amplified market disruption in March 2020. However, other liquidity …
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This paper documents significant cross-border effects of the 2014 US money market fund (MMF) reform on MMFs in the euro area. As US-based prime MMFs became less money-like due to the reform, euro area-based prime MMFs received large inflows from foreign investors. These cross-border flows were...
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The behavior of MMFs since fall 2008 suggests that in evaluating the systemic risk posed by prime MMFs it is not enough to focus on the funds' ability to meet large investor withdrawals during severe stress periods. Instead, today it appears to be even more important to look at the tendency of...
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