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标题：Investor size, liquidity and prime money market fund stress
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作者：Fernando Avalos ; Dora Xia
期刊名称：BIS Quarterly Review: International Banking and Financial Market Developments = BIZ-Quartalsbericht: Internationales Bankgeschäft und internationale Finanzmärkte
印刷版ISSN：1012-9979
出版年度：2021
卷号：2021
语种：English
出版社：Bank for International Settlements
摘要：Massive redemptions at money market funds (MMFs) investing primarily in high-quality short-term private debt securities were an important feature of the market dislocations in March 2020. Building on previous studies of the underlying drivers, we find that large investors' withdrawals did not differentiate across prime institutional MMFs according to these funds' asset liquidity positions. We also find that, faced with large redemptions, the managers of these funds disposed of the less liquid securities in their portfolios, marking a departure from their behaviour in tranquil times. This is likely to have exacerbated market-wide liquidity shortages. After the Federal Reserve's announcement of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility, all funds strengthened their liquidity positions, with those hardest-hit by outflows attempting to catch up with peers.