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The Federal Reserve's Liquidity Backstops to the Municipal Bond Market during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wei, Bin; Yue, Vivian Z. (2020-05-28)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship all over the world. In response, the Federal Reserve has moved quickly and aggressively to support the economy in the United States. In this article, we present some initial evidence for the effectiveness of some of the facilities in calming the municipal bond market, particularly the short-term variable-rate demand obligation (VRDO) market. We discuss the important role of liquidity backstops in mitigating runs and stabilizing financial markets in general based on insights from our study on the runs on VRDO and auction-rate securities ...
Policy Hub* , Paper 2020-5

Journal Article
An Introduction to Web3 with Implications for Financial Services
Parlour, Christine (2023-05-15)
Web3 is used to describe the next iteration of the internet in which decentralized services are automated on blockchains. This paper describes the elements of Web3 including blockchains and tokens. It describes the largest decentralized finance protocols and some specific services where blockchain and tokens can be used. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of some regulatory challenges.
Policy Hub , Volume 2023 , Issue 3

Journal Article
The Federal Reserve's Liquidity Backstops to the Municipal Bond Market during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wei, Bin; Yue, Vivian Z. (2020-05-28)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship all over the world. In response, the Federal Reserve has moved quickly and aggressively to support the economy in the United States. In this article, we present some initial evidence for the effectiveness of some of the facilities in calming the municipal bond market, particularly the short-term variable-rate demand obligation (VRDO) market. We discuss the important role of liquidity backstops in mitigating runs and stabilizing financial markets in general based on insights from our study on the runs on VRDO and auction-rate securities ...
Policy Hub , Volume 2020 , Issue 5 , Pages 10

Working Paper
The Response of Stock Market Volatility to Futures-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
Gospodinov, Nikolay; Jamali, Ibrahim (2014-08-01)
In this paper, we investigate the dynamic response of stock market volatility to changes in monetary policy. Using a vector autoregressive model, our findings reveal a significant and asymmetric response of stock returns and volatility to monetary policy shocks. Although the increase in the volatility risk premium, futures-trading volume, and leverage appear to contribute to a short-term increase in volatility, the longer-term dynamics of volatility are dominated by monetary policy's effect on fundamentals. The estimation results from a bivariate VAR-GARCH model suggest that the Fed does not ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2014-14

Working Paper
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Shen, Ji; Yan, Hongjun; Wei, Bin (2018-12-01)
This paper analyzes financial intermediation chains in a search model with an endogenous intermediary sector. We show that the chain length and price dispersion among interdealer trades are decreasing in search cost, search speed, and market size but increasing in investors' trading needs. Using data from the U.S. corporate bond market, we find evidence broadly consistent with these predictions. Moreover, as search speed approaches infinity, the search equilibrium does not always converge to the centralized-market equilibrium: prices and allocation converge, but the trading volume might not. ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2018-15

Working Paper
Liquidity backstops and dynamic debt runs
Wei, Bin; Yue, Vivian Z. (2015-12-01)
Liquidity backstops have important implications for financial stability. In this paper, we provide a microfoundation for the important role of liquidity backstops in mitigating runs (or, conversely, the role of the lack of liquidity backstops in exacerbating runs) based on a dynamic model of debt runs. We focus on the municipal bond markets for variable rate demand obligations (VRDOs) and auction rate securities (ARS). The different experiences in these markets during the recent financial crisis of 2007?09 provide a natural experiment to identify the value of a liquidity backstop in ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2015-13

Report
Evidence That Relaxing Dealers’ Risk Constraints Can Make the Treasury Market More Liquid
Bräuning, Falk; Stein, Hillary (2025-03-04)
This brief studies how regulation involving bank capital requirements affects the behavior of bank-affiliated primary dealers in the Treasury market. Specifically, it looks at the potential effects of changes to the supplementary leverage ratio (SLR) requirement, which determines how much capital a bank must hold in relation to its overall exposure, including exposure in its trading assets such as Treasuries. The SLR is a measure of a bank’s ability to absorb losses during periods of financial stress; the Federal Reserve sets a minimum requirement for the SLR to help protect the stability ...
Current Policy Perspectives , Paper 25-4

Working Paper
Runs and Flights to Safety: Are Stablecoins the New Money Market Funds?
La Spada, Gabriele; Anadu, Kenechukwu E.; Wang, J. Christina; Landoni, Mattia; Macchiavelli, Marco; Cipriani, Marco; Azar, Pablo D.; Huang, Catherine; Eisenbach, Thomas M.; Malfroy-Camine, Antoine (2025-06-01)
Similar to the more traditional money market funds (MMFs), stablecoins aim to provide investors with safe, money-like assets. We investigate similarities and differences between these two investment products. Our key finding is that, like MMFs, stablecoins also suffer from “flight-to-safety” dynamics. This is manifested in net flows from riskier to safer stablecoins on days of crypto-market stress. The same flight-to-safety dynamics also characterized flows during stablecoin runs, as exemplified by the two most severe episodes in 2022 and 2023. Furthermore, as flight-to-safety flows occur ...
Supervisory Research and Analysis Working Papers , Paper SRA 23-02

Working Paper
Technology Providers and Financial Stability: Overview of Risks and Regulatory Frameworks
Garza, Lorenzo; Chmielewski, Rebecca; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam; Cowperthwait, Patricia K.; Anadu, Kenechukwu E.; Cho, Meeoak; Amromin, Gene; Solimine, Brett; Sanders, Siobhan; Chapel, Amy; Weiss, Emma; Hull, Cindy E.; Bräuning, Falk (2025-06-23)
Technology-focused Third-Party Service Providers (TPSPs) have become important players in the operations of financial institutions and the financial markets. This paper summarizes the micro- and macro-prudential regulatory frameworks in place to address risks that TPSPs may pose to the financial system.
Supervisory Research and Analysis Working Papers , Paper SRA 25-01

Working Paper
The Shift from Active to Passive Investing: Potential Risks to Financial Stability?
Osambela, Emilio; Anadu, Kenechukwu E.; Kruttli, Mathias S.; Shin, Chaehee; McCabe, Patrick E. (2018-08-27)
The past couple of decades have seen a significant shift in assets from active to passive investment strategies. We examine the potential effects of this shift on financial stability through four different channels: (1) effects on investment funds? liquidity transformation and redemption risks; (2) passive strategies that amplify market volatility; (3) increases in asset-management industry concentration; and (4) the effects on valuations, volatility, and comovement of assets that are included in indexes. Overall, the shift from active to passive investment strategies appears to be increasing ...
Supervisory Research and Analysis Working Papers , Paper RPA 18-4

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