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Haircut, Interest Rate, and Collateral Quality in the Tri-Party Repo Market: Evidence and Theory

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  • Sangyup Choi
  • Inkee Jang
  • Kee-Youn Kang
  • Hyunpyung Kim

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Using transaction-level data from the Korean tri-party repo market, we study how repo contract terms interact with collateral quality. Both haircuts and interest rates rise with collateral risk, consistent with existing evidence. Conditional on collateral quality, however, we find a trade-off: a one-percentage-point increase in the spread is associated with a 1.3-percentage-point reduction in the haircut. The same increase in the interest rate is associated with a smaller reduction in the haircut under heightened market uncertainty, indicating that insurance against default becomes more valuable as default risk rises. We show that the interaction between lenders' incentives to acquire information and borrowers' opportunistic default risk explains both the positive unconditional relationship and the negative conditional relationship between haircuts and interest rates.

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  • Sangyup Choi & Inkee Jang & Kee-Youn Kang & Hyunpyung Kim, 2026. "Haircut, Interest Rate, and Collateral Quality in the Tri-Party Repo Market: Evidence and Theory," CAMA Working Papers 2026-47, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:een:camaaa:2026-47
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    JEL classification:

    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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