Twenty-Eight Money Market Funds That Could Have Broken the Buck: New Data on Losses during the 2008 Crisis

Marco Cipriani, Michael Holscher, Antoine Martin and Patrick E. McCabe
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No 20131009, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: During the financial crisis in 2008, just one money market fund (MMF) ?broke the buck??that is, its share price dropped below one dollar. The Reserve Primary Fund announced on September 16 that the value of its shares had dropped to 97 cents. As we discussed in a previous post, Reserve?s announcement helped spark a widespread, damaging run on MMFs that slowed only when the federal government intervened three days later to backstop the funds.

Keywords: Money Market Funds; NAV (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-09
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