Briefings
Week InReview: February 24, 2017
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- On: 02/24/2017 11:04:58
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On bond market liquidity... "We present a model of market makers subject to recent banking regulations: liquidity and capital constraints in the style of Basel III and a position limit in the style of the Volcker Rule. Regulation causes market makers to reduce their intermediation by refusing principal positions. However, it can improve the bid-ask spread because it induces new market makers to enter. Since market makers intermediate less, asset prices exhibit a liquidity premium. Costs of regulation can be assessed by measuring principal positions and asset prices but not by measuring bid-ask spreads." Banking Regulation & Market Making, Bank of Canada - Staff Working Paper
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