Anatomy of a liquidity crisis: Corporate bonds in the COVID-19 crisis

M O'Hara, XA Zhou - Journal of Financial Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We examine the microstructure of liquidity provision in the COVID-19 corporate bond
liquidity crisis. During the two weeks leading up to Federal Reserve System interventions …

Capital commitment and illiquidity in corporate bonds

H Bessembinder, S Jacobsen, W Maxwell… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We study trading costs and dealer behavior in US corporate bond markets from 2006 to
2016. Despite a temporary spike during the financial crisis, average trade execution costs …

Relationship trading in over‐the‐counter markets

T Hendershott, D Li, D Livdan… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the network of trading relationships between insurers and dealers in the over‐
the‐counter (OTC) corporate bond market. Regulatory data show that one‐third of insurers …

Can ETFs increase market fragility? Effect of information linkages in ETF markets

A Bhattacharya, M O'Hara - Effect of Information Linkages in ETF …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have a novel design that allows them to “open up” illiquid
markets hitherto resistant to index products. We demonstrate that such ETFs also have the …

A survey of the microstructure of fixed-income markets

H Bessembinder, C Spatt… - Journal of Financial and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this article, we survey the literature that studies fixed-income trading rules and outcomes,
including Treasury securities, corporate and municipal bonds, and structured credit …

Providing liquidity in an illiquid market: Dealer behavior in US corporate bonds

MA Goldstein, ES Hotchkiss - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We examine market making behavior of dealers for 55,988 corporate bonds, many of which
trade infrequently. Dealers have a substantially higher propensity to offset trades within the …

Currency mispricing and dealer balance sheets

G Cenedese, P Della Corte, T Wang - The Journal of Finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We find dealer‐level evidence that recent regulation on the leverage ratio requirement
causes deviations from covered interest parity. Our analysis uses a unique data set of …

[PDF][PDF] An anatomy of the 2022 gilt market crisis

G Pinter - 2023 - congress-files.s3.amazonaws.com
We use transaction-level data on the UK government bond, repo and interest-rate swap
markets to analyse market liquidity, investor behaviour and price dynamics during the …

Pricing and liquidity in decentralized asset markets

S Üslü - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
I develop a search‐and‐bargaining model of endogenous intermediation in over‐the‐
counter markets. Unlike the existing work, my model allows for rich investor heterogeneity in …

The electronic evolution of corporate bond dealers

M O'Hara, XA Zhou - Journal of Financial Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Technology transformed the trading of financial assets but has been slower to come to
corporate bond trading. Combining proprietary data from MarketAxess with regulatory …