Baba, Naohiko; Packer, Frank; Nagano, Teppei - In: BIS Quarterly Review (2008) March
We analyse the spillover of the turmoil in money markets in the second half of 2007 to FX swap and long-term cross-currency basis swap markets. We find that the use of swap markets to overcome US dollar funding shortages by non-US financial institutions resulted in marked deviations from covered...