We estimate the joint term-structure of U.S. Treasury cash and repo rates using daily prices of all outstanding Treasury securities and corresponding special collateral (SC) repo rates. This allows us to derive a risk premium associated to the SC value of Treasuries and quantitatively link this...

This paper presents a general equilibrium, monetary model of bank runs to study monetary injections during financial crises. When the probability of runs is positive, depositors increase money demand and reduce deposits; at the economy-wide level, the velocity of money drops and deflation...

We provide a theory of fire sales in which potential buyers are subject to liquidity shocks and frictions that limit their ability to resell assets. The model predictions align with some stylized facts about the large sales of corporate bonds and Treasury securities during the COVID-19 economic...

Although proxy variables are pervasive in empirical work, the quality of proxy variables---in terms of how closely they track underlying economic forces---is not known. We derive novel regression specifications to infer the severity of measurement error using a sample of 2,552 instrumental...

Exploiting the unique ``twin'' structure of German government green and conventional securities, we use a dynamic term structure model to estimate a sovereign risk-free greenium: the premium investors are willing to pay to subsidize environmentally beneficial projects. Differently from the...

This paper studies the risk management of central counterparties (CCPs) using a granular transaction-level dataset. We test whether margining practices are sufficient relative to portfolio risk and whether CCPs reduce margin requirements in a ‟race-to-the-bottom.” We find that, for some...