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Liquidity effects in the bond market

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Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

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The authors find that supply risk in the market for Treasury bills adds between 10 basis points and 40 basis points to the standard deviation of the T-bill interest rate. The risk will probably increase unless the Fed expands the set of assets that it uses to conduct open market operations.

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Article provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in its journal Economic Perspectives.

Volume (Year): (2001)
Issue (Month): Q IV ()
Pages: 17-35
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Handle: RePEc:fip:fedhep:y:2001:i:qiv:p:17-35:n:v.25no.4

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Keywords: Liquidity (Economics) ; Treasury bonds ; Treasury bills ; Treasury notes;

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  1. Arvind Krishnamurthy & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, 2007. "The Demand for Treasury Debt," NBER Working Papers 12881, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2003. "The 1929 stock market: Irving Fisher was right," Staff Report 294, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Ellen R. McGrattan & Edward C. Prescott, 2001. "The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right!," NBER Working Papers 8622, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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