The Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility

Kenechukwu Anadu (), Marco Cipriani, Ryan M. Craver and Gabriele La Spada

Economic Policy Review, 2022, vol. 28, issue 1

Abstract: In this article, the authors discuss the run on prime money market funds (MMFs) that occurred in March 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and describe the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF), which the Federal Reserve established in response to it. They show that the MMLF, like a similarly structured Federal Reserve facility established during the 2008 financial crisis, was an important tool in stemming investor outflows from MMFs and restoring calm in short-term funding markets. The usage of the facility was higher by funds that suffered larger outflows. After the facility’s introduction, outflows from prime MMFs decreased more for those funds that had a larger share of illiquid securities. Importantly, following the introduction of the MMLF, interest rates on MMLF-ineligible securities decreased at a slower rate than those on MMLF-eligible securities, even after controlling for credit risk.

Keywords: Federal Reserve; COVID-19; money market funds; runs; Federal Reserve lending facilities; Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G23 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
Note: This volume is a special issue titled “Policy Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” and features ten articles by New York Fed economists and coauthors from Markets, Supervision, the Board of Governors, and the Boston Fed.
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