Treasury Market Liquidity And The Federal Reserve During The COVID-19 Pandemic
from Liberty Street Economics
– this post authored by Michael Fleming
Many of the actions taken by the Federal Reserve during the COVID-19 pandemic are intended to address a deterioration of market functioning. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced purchases of Treasury securities and agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), in particular, “to support the smooth functioning of markets” in those securities. Last month, we showed in this post how one metric of functioning for the Treasury market, market illiquidity, jumped to unusually high levels in March amid massive uncertainty about the economic effects of the pandemic.
Source: http://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/contributor.php?post=202006130541
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