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Session
Fixed Income - 1
Time:
Sunday, 15/Dec/2024:
8:30am - 9:25am

Session Chair: Paul Whelan, Chinese University Hong Kong
Discussant: Haonan Zhou, HKU Business School
Location: 9B321 (3rd basement floor, International Hall)


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Money Market Funds and the Pricing of Near-Money Assets

Sebastian Doerr1, Egemen Eren1, Semyon Malamud2

1BIS, Switzerland; 2EPFL

We introduce a new channel through which US money market funds (MMFs) affect the pricing of near-money assets and measured convenience yields. Our theoretical model reveals that MMFs' strategic interactions create frictions that are exacerbated by T-bill market illiquidity. Using instrumental variables, we show that MMFs have an economically significant price impact in the T-bill market. Consistent with strategic behavior, they internalize this price impact when setting repo rates and allocating portfolios. Our evidence suggests that these frictions drive a sizeable part of common measures of T-bill convenience yields. Our results have implications for monetary policy transmission, government debt issuance, and the regulation of MMFs.


Doerr-Money Market Funds and the Pricing of Near-Money Assets-135.pdf


 
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