The Quiet Run of 2011: Money Market Funds and the European Debt Crisis

Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
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Sergey Chernenko: OH State University
Adi Sunderam: Harvard University

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Abstract: We show that money market funds transmitted distress across firm during the European sovereign debt crisis. Using a novel data set of US money market fund holdings, we show that funds with large exposures to Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. These outflows have significant short-run spillover effects on other firms: non-Eurobank issuers that typically rely on these funds raise less financing in this period. The results are not driven by issuer riskiness or direct exposure to Europe: for the same issuer, money market funds with greater exposure to Eurozone banks decrease their holdings more than other funds. Our results illustrate that instabilities associated with money market funds persist despite recent changes to the regulations governing them.

JEL-codes: G01 G18 G21 G28 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01
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