We examine the introduction of mandatory post-trade reporting in the TBA mortgage-backed securities market. With post-trade reporting, trading costs fell for institutional investors. Trading costs declined more for investors' trades with peripheral dealers than for their trades with core...

Agency MBSs with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel through individualized specified pool (SP) contracts and standardized to-be-announced (TBA) contracts. This parallel trading environment generates distinctive effects on MBS pricing and trading: (1) Although cheapest-to-deliver...

Agency MBSs are traded via both specified pool (SP) contracts for individual securities and to-be-announced (TBA) contracts for a cohort of heterogeneous securities. We document the economic effects of cohort trading on issuers' security design: (1) Low-value and high-value loans are securitized...

The Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy implementations often involve trades of huge amount in a short period of time, which dwarf any individual dealer's inventory capacity. Because of this, dealers strategically manage inventory, and charge uncompetitive pricing to the Fed, which is...

We examine the economic mechanisms that limited arbitrage between the cash and forward markets of agency MBS, and whether asset purchases of the Federal Reserve (Fed) alleviated price dislocations. We find that the cash-forward basis, or the price difference between the cash and forward markets...

Abstract We examine the economic mechanisms that limited arbitrage between the cash and forward markets of agency MBS, and whether asset purchases of the Federal Reserve (Fed) alleviated price dislocations. We find that the cash-forward basis, or the price difference between the cash and forward...

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and Central Banks around the world multilaterally conducted a mix of unconventional monetary policies. We evaluate the effects of these recent interventions vis-a-vis earlier episodes of Quantitative Easing (QE)...

Agency MBSs with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel with individualized specified pool (SP) contracts and standardized to-be-announced (TBA) contracts. This parallel trading environment has distinctive effects on MBS pricing and trading: (1) Although cheapest-to-deliver (CTD) issues...

In sharp contrast to most previous crisis episodes, the Treasury market experienced severe stress and illiquidity during the COVID-19 crisis, raising concerns that the safe-haven status of U.S. Treasuries may be eroding. We document large shifts in Treasury ownership and temporary accumulation...

Asset heterogeneity is widely believed to hurt the liquidity in markets of many important fixed-income assets such as corporate and municipal bonds. We develop a model in which heterogeneous assets are traded with search friction to study the impact of a quasi-consolidated (QC) trading design in...