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Act Now, and Choose Wisely
Remarks at the 2021 ISDA North America Conference (delivered via videoconference).
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LIBOR: origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans. LIBOR's volatile behavior during the financial crisis provoked questions surrounding its credibility. Ongoing regulatory investigations have uncovered misconduct by a number of financial institutions. Policymakers across the globe now face the task of reforming LIBOR in the aftermath of the scandal and ...
Working Paper
Option-Implied Libor Rate Expectations across Currencies
In this paper, I study risk-neutral probability densities regarding future Libor rates denominated in British pounds, euros, and US dollars as implied by option prices. I apply Breeden and Litzenberger?s (1978) result regarding the relationship between option prices and implied probabilities for the underlying to estimate full probability density functions for future Libor rates. I use these estimates in case studies, detailing the evolution of probabalistic expectations for future Libor rates over the course of several important market events. Next, I compute distributional moments from ...
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Money markets at a crossroads: policy implementation at a time of structural change: remarks at the Master of Applied Economics' Distinguished Speaker Series, University of California, Los Angeles
Remarks at the Master of Applied Economics' Distinguished Speaker Series, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Good Day Sunshine
Remarks at Midsize Bank Coalition of America (delivered via videoconference).
Working Paper
What Drives Bank Funding Spreads?
We use matched, bank-level panel data on Libor submissions and credit default swaps to decompose bank-funding spreads at several maturities into components reflecting counterparty credit risk and funding-market liquidity. To account for the possibility that banks may strategically misreport their funding rates in the Libor survey, we nest our decomposition within a model of the costs and benefits of lying. We find that Libor spreads typically consist mostly of a liquidity premium and that this premium declined at short maturities following Federal Reserve interventions in bank funding ...
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The role of the New York Fed as administrator and producer of reference rates: remarks at the Annual Primary Dealer Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City
Remarks at the Annual Primary Dealer Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
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The transition to a robust reference rate regime: remarks at Bank of England’s Markets Forum 2018, London, England
Remarks at Bank of England?s Markets Forum 2018, London, England.
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Money Market Developments: Views from the Desk
Remarks at the Annual Primary Dealer Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
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Transitioning Away From LIBOR: Understanding SOFR’s Strengths and Considering the Path Forward
Remarks at the Bank Policy Institute’s Credit-Sensitive Benchmark Symposium (delivered via videoconference).