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 …

Things fall apart: fixed income markets in the COVID-19 crisis

M O'Hara, X Zhou - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a critical appraisal of the March 2020 crisis in fixed income markets. We
synthesize the main events, characterize what appears to be an emerging consensus on …

[HTML][HTML] Technology and automation in financial trading: a bibliometric review

R Carè, D Cumming - Research in International Business and Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
In this bibliometric study, the significant transformations in the financial sector brought about
by automation and technological advancements from 1984 to 2022 are explored. A total of …

Mutual fund fragility, dealer liquidity provision, and the pricing of municipal bonds

Y Li, M O'Hara, X Zhou - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, we study how the interactions of mutual funds and
dealers introduce fragility to the municipal bond market and induce lasting market impacts …

Centralizing over-the-counter markets?

J Allen, M Wittwer - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
In traditional over-the-counter markets, investors trade bilaterally through intermediaries. We
assess whether and how to shift trades on a centralized platform with trade-level data on the …

Stablecoin runs and the centralization of arbitrage

Y Ma, Y Zeng, AL Zhang - Available at SSRN 4398546, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyze the run risk of USD-backed stablecoins. Stablecoin issuers aim to keep the
stablecoin price at $1 by holding a portfolio of US dollar assets like bank deposits …

The limits of multi-dealer platforms

C Wang - Journal of Financial Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
On many important multi-dealer platforms, customers mostly request quotes from very few
dealers. I build a model of multi-dealer platforms, where dealers strategically choose to …

Retail bond investors and credit ratings

E deHaan, J Li, EM Watts - Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Using comprehensive data on US corporate bond trades since 2002, we find evidence that
retail bond investors overrely on untimely credit ratings to their financial detriment …

[PDF][PDF] Sequential search for corporate bonds

M Kargar, B Lester, S Plante, PO Weill - 2023 - aeaweb.org
In over-the-counter (OTC) markets, customers search for counterparties. Little is known
about this process, however, because existing data is comprised of transaction records …

Bond Market Illiquidity: Is Portfolio Trading the Solution?

JS Li, M O'Hara, AC Rapp, XA Zhou - This paper subsumes Li …, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine portfolio trading and its impact on corporate bond liquidity. Our theoretical
framework identifies how portfolio trades provide dealers with benefits through a …