Hedging the Treasury Lock

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Competition in Treasury Auctions

We investigate the role of competition on the outcome of Austrian Treasury auctions. EU accession by Austria provides a ``natural experiment'' causing an exogenous increase in the number of bidders in Treasury Auctions. We use structural estimates of bidders' private values to examine the effect of increased competition on auction revenue and compare bidder surplus before and after the auction....

Competition in Austrian Treasury Auctions

We investigate the role of competition on the outcome of Austrian Treasury auctions. EU accession by Austria provides a “natural experiment” causing an exogenous increase in the number of bidders in Treasury Auctions. Difference-in-difference estimates suggest that the increased number in bidders caused a significant drop in the yields Austria had to pay for newly issued debt. We use structural...

Measuring Treasury Market Liquidity

This paper examines a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for the U.S. Treasury market. The measures are analyzed relative to one another, across securities, and over time. I find highly significant price impact coefficients, such that a simple model that explains price changes with net order flow produces an R statistic above 30% for the two-year note. The price impact coefficients are hig...

The Microstructure of the U.S. Treasury Market

This article discusses the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market. Treasury securities are nominally riskless debt instruments issued by the U.S. government. Microstructural analysis is a field of economics/finance that examines the roles played by heterogenous agents, institutional detail, and asymmetric information in the trading process. The article describes types of Treasury...