Economist @ Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Interests: Finance and Industrial Organization

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Selected work

Reserves Were Not So Ample After All

with Darrell Duffie & Yilin (David) Yang, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 140, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 239–281.

We show that the likelihood of a liquidity crunch in wholesale US dollar funding markets depends on levels of reserve balances at the financial institutions that are the most active intermediaries of these markets. Heightened risk of an imminent liquidity crunch is signaled by significant delays in intra-day payments to these large financial institutions over the prior two weeks. Our study contributes to the broader dialogue surrounding the Federal Reserve’s ongoing quantitative tightening (QT).

Repo over the Financial Crisis

with Antoine Martin, Journal of Finance Volume 80, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 911-936

This paper uses new data to provide a comprehensive view of repo activity during the 2007-09 financial crisis for the first time. We show that activity declined much more in the bilateral segment of the market than in the tri-party segment. Surprisingly, we find that a large share of the decline in activity is driven by repos backed by Treasury securities. Further, a disproportionate share of the decline in repo activity is connected to securities dealer’s market-making activity in Treasury securities. In particular, the evidence suggests that at least part of the decline is not driven by clients pulling away from securities dealers because of counterparty credit concerns.

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