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The Financial Crisis through the Lens of Foreign Exchange Swap Markets

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  • Crystal Ossolinski

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Andrew Zurawski

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

Abstract

During the financial crisis, non-US banks relied increasingly on foreign exchange swap markets to fund their US dollar asset holdings. This caused the cost of borrowing US dollars via the swap market to rise above the measured cost of borrowing US dollars directly in money markets – an apparent deviation from the covered interest parity condition. Pricing in the Australian dollar foreign exchange swap market, and to a lesser degree the cross-currency swap market, also reflected the global scarcity of US dollar funding at the height of the crisis.

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  • Crystal Ossolinski & Andrew Zurawski, 2010. "The Financial Crisis through the Lens of Foreign Exchange Swap Markets," RBA Bulletin (Print copy discontinued), Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 47-53, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:rba:rbabul:jun2010-07
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    2. Susan Black & Anthony Brassil & Mark Hack, 2010. "The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Bond Market," RBA Bulletin (Print copy discontinued), Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 55-62, June.
    3. Naohiko Baba & Robert N McCauley & Srichander Ramaswamy, 2009. "US dollar money market funds and non-US banks," BIS Quarterly Review, Bank for International Settlements, March.
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