A model of monetary policy and risk premia

I Drechsler, A Savov, P Schnabl - The Journal of Finance, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a dynamic asset pricing model in which monetary policy affects the risk
premium component of the cost of capital. Risk‐tolerant agents (banks) borrow from risk …

Stressed, not frozen: The federal funds market in the financial crisis

G Afonso, A Kovner, A Schoar - The Journal of Finance, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the importance of liquidity hoarding and counterparty risk in the US overnight
interbank market during the financial crisis of 2008. Our findings suggest that counterparty …

Reforming LIBOR and other financial market benchmarks

D Duffie, JC Stein - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015 - aeaweb.org
LIBOR is the London Interbank Offered Rate: a measure of the interest rate at which large
banks can borrow from one another on an unsecured basis. LIBOR is often used as a …

Trade dynamics in the market for federal funds

G Afonso, R Lagos - Econometrica, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a model of the market for federal funds that explicitly accounts for its two
distinctive features: banks have to search for a suitable counterparty, and once they meet …

A model of liquidity hoarding and term premia in inter-bank markets

VV Acharya, D Skeie - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Financial crises are associated with reduced volumes and extreme levels of rates for term
inter-bank loans, reflected in one-month and three-month LIBOR. We explain such stress by …

Mind the gap: Disentangling credit and liquidity in risk spreads

K Schwarz - Review of Finance, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Euro-area sovereign bond and interbank interest rate spreads spiked in the 2007–2009
Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent European Debt Crisis, substantially elevating …

The term structure of interbank risk

D Filipović, AB Trolle - Journal of Financial Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
We infer a term structure of interbank risk from spreads between rates on interest rate swaps
indexed to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and overnight indexed swaps. We …

Short-Term Rate Benchmarks: The Post-LIBOR Regime

B Tuckman - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the predominant family of global short-term
rate benchmarks for the past 40 years, ceased to exist in June 2023. Given the low volumes …

[PDF][PDF] Bank funding risk, reference rates, and credit supply

HR Cooperman, D Duffie, S Luck, Z Wang, Y Yang - 2023 - aeaweb.org
Corporate credit lines are drawn more heavily when funding markets are more stressed.
This covariance elevates expected bank funding costs. We show that credit supply is …

News sentiment and bank credit risk

LA Smales - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2016 - Elsevier
This article seeks to consider the relationship between the sentiment of newswire messages
for a set of major international banks and changes in two important credit measures; the …