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The Use of Collateral in Bilateral Repurchase and Securities Lending Agreements
Previous title: "A New Survey of the U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: A Snapshot of Broker-Dealer Activity"
January 2016 Number 758
Revised October 2017
Revised October 2017
JEL classification: E44, G24, G12
We use unique data from U.S. bank holding company-affiliated securities dealers to study the use of collateral in bilateral repurchase and securities lending agreements. Market participants’ use of collateral differs substantially across asset classes: for U.S. Treasury securities transactions, we find that haircuts are large enough to provide full protection from default, whereas the same is not usually true for equities transactions. Further, although most of the equities in our sample are each associated with a unique haircut, most of the U.S. Treasury securities are each associated with more than one haircut. We relate these findings to implications of the zero value-at-risk feature that can be found in theories of collateral as an enforcement mechanism, and show that the data do not confirm these implications. We then turn to models of adverse selection that predict a negative relationship between haircuts and interest rates, based on the use of collateral as a screening mechanism. We find this negative relationship only for those trades in which the securities dealers are receiving U.S. Treasury securities and delivering cash.
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