I show that if dealers are averse to holding inventory, then prices, liquidity, and dealers' inventory positions depend on inventory costs in negotiated over-the-counter markets. The solution to my dynamic equilibrium model rationalizes the following stylized facts in the US corporate bond...

Repo is used in India as an instrument for monetary policy by institutionalizing daily Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) which allows banks and Primary Dealers to manage their liquidity needs. Liquidity stress in the market has an impact on the short term interest rate. Entities not having...

ETF markets generally provide high levels of liquidity but occasionally break down under turbulent conditions. We show that this seemingly ambivalent behavior can optimally arise in an inventory model of market making that explicitly accounts for the ETF specific dual trading structure. Our...

This paper shows how to map predictions of theoretical models of market microstructure into operational empirical measures of liquidity. A meta-model implies an empirical measure of liquidity, denoted L, which describes various characteristics of trading and funding liquidity such as trading...

In responding to the severity and broad scope of the crisis, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) has aggressively utilized both traditional monetary policy instruments, as well as innovative tools to provide liquidity. In this paper, the Fed's actions are examined in light of the evolution of risk...

Greece is at a decisive moment. It has to choose between defaulting and an economic program of structural reforms, privatization, efficient tax collection, and shrinking of the public sector. Unilateral suspension of debt payments would be an economic catastrophe for Greeks, resulting in deep...

The recent financial crisis has triggered a major rethink of analytical approaches and policy towards financial stability. The crisis has encouraged a sharper focus on systemic risk, the inclusion of a financial sector in macroeconomic models, a shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential...

We identify fast trading by directly measuring message traffic and the lifetime of orders for all market members on Euronext using their identification codes. We show that the fast-traded stocks exhibit the weakest decrease in both the relative spread and the cost of round trip trade. These...