Journal Article
Debt-management policy and the own price elasticity of demand for U.S. government notes and bonds
Rasche, Robert H.; Lang, Richard W. (1977-09)
Review , Volume 59 , Issue Sep , Pages 8-22

Journal Article
The Term Securities Lending Facility: origin, design, and effects
Hrung, Warren B.; Keane, Frank M.; Fleming, Michael J. (2009-02)
The Federal Reserve launched the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) in 2008 to promote liquidity in the funding markets and improve the operation of the broader financial markets. The facility increases the ability of dealers to obtain cash in the private market by enabling them to pledge securities temporarily as collateral for Treasuries, which are relatively easy to finance. The TSLF thus reduces the need for dealers to sell assets into illiquid markets as well as lessens the likelihood of a loss of confidence among lenders.
Current Issues in Economics and Finance , Volume 15 , Issue Feb

Journal Article
The institutionalization of treasury note and bond auctions, 1970-75
Garbade, Kenneth D. (2004-05)
The substitution of auctions for fixed-price offerings was expected to lower the U.S. Treasury's cost of financing the federal debt. Despite this and other potential benefits, the Treasury failed in both 1935 and 1963 in its attempts to introduce regular auction sales of coupon-bearing securities. This article examines the Treasury's third and successful attempt between 1970 and 1975. The author identifies three likely reasons why the Treasury succeeded in the early 1970s: it closely imitated its successful and well-understood bill auction process, it extended the maturity of auction ...
Economic Policy Review , Issue May , Pages 29-45

Journal Article
Assessing the Costs of Rolling Over Government Debt
Kozlowski, Julian; Jordan-Wood, Samuel (2023-06-02)
The US government has $21.4 trillion in outstanding Treasury debt in bills, notes, and bonds. Given the federal funds rate is up 4-5% over the past year, how expensive will it be to roll over maturing Treasury debt at these higher rates?
Economic Synopses , Issue 13 , Pages 4 pages

Journal Article
Measuring treasury market liquidity
Fleming, Michael J. (2003-09)
This paper was presented at the conference "Economic Statistics: New Needs for the Twenty-First Century," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics, July 11, 2002. Securities liquidity is important to those who transact in markets, those who monitor market conditions, and those who analyze market developments. This article estimates and evaluates a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for the U.S. Treasury securities market. The author finds that the commonly used bid-ask ...
Economic Policy Review , Issue Sep , Pages 83-108

Journal Article
Treasury securities offered in smaller amounts
anonymous (1998-10)
Financial Update , Volume 11 , Issue Oct , Pages 5

Working Paper
Deriving inflation expectations from nominal and inflation-indexed Treasury yields
Sack, Brian P. (2000)
This paper derives a measure of inflation compensation from the yields of a Treasury inflation-indexed security and a portfolio of STRIPS that has similar liquidity and duration as the indexed security. This measure can be used as a proxy for inflation expectations if the inflation risk premium is small. The calculated measure suggests that the rate of inflation expected over the next ten years fell from just under 3% in mid-1997 to just under 1 3/4% by early 1999, before rising back to about 2 1/2% by the beginning of 2000. This variation is more extensive than would have been expected from ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2000-33

Journal Article
Who buys Treasury securities at auction?
Fleming, Michael J. (2007-01)
The U.S. Treasury Department now releases fuller information about its auctions than in the past, including new information on investor class and bidder category. The investor class data shed light on the distribution of demand for government securities, and the bidder category data, released first, offer an early read on demand. Purchases by indirect bidders, in particular, are a fairly good proxy for foreign purchases of Treasury notes, but not Treasury bills.
Current Issues in Economics and Finance , Volume 13 , Issue Jan

Journal Article
Liquidity effects in the bond market
Jovanovic, Boyan; Rousseau, Peter L. (2001-10)
The authors find that supply risk in the market for Treasury bills adds between 10 basis points and 40 basis points to the standard deviation of the T-bill interest rate. The risk will probably increase unless the Fed expands the set of assets that it uses to conduct open market operations.
Economic Perspectives , Volume 25 , Issue Q IV , Pages 17-35

Journal Article
The Treasury auction process: objectives, structure, and recent acquisitions
Ingber, Jeffrey F.; Garbade, Kenneth D. (2005-02)
Treasury auctions are designed to minimize the cost of financing the national debt by promoting broad, competitive bidding and liquid secondary market trading. A review of the auction process-from the announcement of a new issue to the delivery of securities-reveals how these objectives have been met. Also highlighted are changes in the auction process that stem from recent advances in information-processing technologies and risk management techniques.
Current Issues in Economics and Finance , Volume 11 , Issue Feb