Estimating demand for liquid assets

This paper proposes a simple structural model to study substitution patterns within the class of safe and liquid assets at the extreme short-end of the yield curve (maturity <1YR). I estimate the demand system by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in safe asset issuance due to regulatory requirements (''window dressing"). Under this identifying assumption, month-end dummies can be considered supply shocks and can be used to instrument quantities. 2SLS estimates suggest nearly perfect substitutability between treasury securities and financial commercial paper.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Sastry, Parinitha(Parinitha R.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Adrien Verdelhan.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126960

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/126960