The U.S. Treasury market is the deepest and most liquid fixed-income market in the world, yet in March 2020 it experienced unprecedented dysfunction—widening bid-ask spreads, skyrocketing repo rates, …
PublishedClassicReview of Financial StudiesOnline 7 Apr 2020Published Feb 2021
Identifying US monetary policy shocks from daily moves in five-year Treasury futures around FOMC announcements, this paper shows that during the unconventional-policy years those shocks largely …