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Author:Foley-Fisher, Nathan 

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Funding Agreement-Backed Securities in the Enhanced Financial Accounts

This note describes new data on funding agreement-backed securities (FABS) that is being provided as part of the Enhanced Financial Accounts (EFA) initiative.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2016-08-05-2

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Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

This paper studies how over-the-counter market liquidity is affected by securities lending. We combine micro-data on corporate bond market trades with securities lending transactions and individual corporate bond holdings by U.S. insurance companies. Applying a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, we show that the shutdown of AIG's securities lending program in 2008 caused a statistically and economically significant reduction in the market liquidity of corporate bonds predominantly held by AIG. We also show that an important mechanism behind the decrease in corporate bond liquidity ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2019-011

Working Paper
Self-fulfilling Runs: Evidence from the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Is liquidity creation in shadow banking vulnerable to self-fulfilling runs? Investors typically decide to withdraw simultaneously, making it challenging to identify self-fulfilling runs. In this paper, we exploit the contractual structure of funding agreement-backed securities offered by U.S. life insurers to institutional investors. The contracts allow us to obtain variation in investors' expectations about other investors' actions that is plausibly orthogonal to changes in fundamentals. We find that a run on U.S. life insurers during the summer of 2007 was partly due to self-fulfilling ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2015-32

Discussion Paper
Life Insurers’ Role in the Intermediation Chain of Public and Private Credit to Risky Firms

This note quantifies life insurers' role in the intermediation of public and private credit to risky firms. Since the 2007-09 financial crisis, the share of life insurers' general account assets exposed to below-investment-grade ('risky') corporate debt has roughly doubled.
FEDS Notes , Paper 2025-03-21-1

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