Repo Runs

Review of Financial Studies 27, 4, 2014, 957-989

FRB of New York Staff Report No. 444

47 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2010 Last revised: 22 Aug 2017

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Antoine Martin

Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Research and Statistics

David R. Skeie

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

Universitaet Mannheim; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Date Written: September 15, 2010

Abstract

The recent financial crisis has shown that short-term collateralized borrowing may be highly unstable in times of stress. The present paper develops a dynamic equilibrium model and shows that this instability can be a consequence of market-wide changes in expectations, but does not have to be. We derive a liquidity constraint and a collateral constraint that determine whether such expectations-driven runs are possible and show that they depend crucially on the microstructure of particular funding markets that we examine in detail. In particular, our model provides insights into the differences between the tri-party repo market and the bilateral repo market, which were both at the heart of the recent financial crisis.

Keywords: Investment banking, securities dealers, repurchase agreements, tri-party repo, bilateral repo, money market mutual funds, asset-backed commercial paper, runs, financial fragility

JEL Classification: E44, E58, G24

Suggested Citation

Martin, Antoine and Skeie, David R. and von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig, Repo Runs (September 15, 2010). Review of Financial Studies 27, 4, 2014, 957-989, FRB of New York Staff Report No. 444, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1594895 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1594895

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University of Warwick - Warwick Business School ( email )

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Ernst-Ludwig Von Thadden

Universitaet Mannheim ( email )

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Germany

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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