Treasury trading nearly ground to a halt, imperiling the functioning of global financial markets, until the Fed jumped in to buy hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds that helped to free up space on dealer balance sheets.
"Backstopping the liquidity of this market with transparent official-sector purchase programs will further buttress market resilience."
Future bouts of Treasury market illiquidity could also be made less likely with broader use of central clearing, Duffie wrote, as well as changing the way regulators assess bank capital levels.
Financial authorities made such a change temporarily after March 2020, but allowed the so-called Supplementary Leverage Ratio exemption to sunset a year later.
Other changes could include technical changes to market function to encourage direct buying and selling without dealer intermediation, Duffie wrote.
Persons:
JACKSON, Darrell Duffie, Duffie, intermediation, Ann Saphir, Chizu
Organizations:
Treasury, Federal Reserve, Stanford University, Kansas City, Fed, Thomson
Locations:
, Wyoming, Jackson Hole , Wyoming