The increasing default risk of US Treasury securities due to the financial crisis |
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Authors: | Srinivas Nippani Stanley D. Smith |
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Affiliation: | 1. Texas A&M University-Commerce, P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429-3011, USA;2. University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 161400, Orlando, FL 32816-1400, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the impact of the current financial crisis on long-term US Treasury yields by testing the impact of a series of events from December 2007 to March 2009 on the spread between 10-year USD LIBOR swap and 10-year US Treasury (constant maturity) rates to measure risk associated with Treasuries. Controlling for the liquidity of the two markets, the default risk of the swap, and the net foreign purchases of Treasury securities, we find that 13 of the tested 20 events have significantly negative coefficients. We conclude that the lower spread is consistent with greater default risk for US Treasury securities. |
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Keywords: | E62 G01 G12 G14 H61 H62 H63 |
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