Safe-Assets-Convenience-Yield

SANG RAE KIM

This paper studies when a bank is more effective as a supplier of privately produced money-like safe assets (repo, commercial paper), finding that a bank produces safer, more liquid assets when (1) …

Ralph S.J. Koijen · Motohiro Yogo

The paper develops an asset demand system to analyze, jointly and across all countries, how international portfolio holdings and flows, exchange rates, short-term rates, long-term yields, and equity …

Daniel Barth · R. Jay Kahn

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, …

Jens H. E. Christensen · Simon T. Hetland

The paper introduces the concept of “passive quantitative easing” (passive QE): a deliberate reduction in government debt issuance that lowers anticipated future bond supply and reduces …