It’s What You Say and What You Buy: A Holistic Evaluation of the Corporate Credit Facilities
Nina Boyarchenko,
Anna Kovner and
Or Shachar
No 935, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Abstract:
We evaluate the impact of the Federal Reserve corporate credit facilities (PMCCF and SMCCF). A third of the positive effect on prices and liquidity occurred on the announcement date. We document immediate pass-through into primary markets, particularly for eligible issuers. Improvements continue as additional information is shared and purchases begin, with the impact of bond purchases larger than the impact of purchases of ETFs. Exploiting cross-sectional evidence, we see the greatest impact on investment grade bonds and in industries less affected by COVID, concluding that the improvement in corporate credit markets can be attributed both to announcement effects of Federal Reserve interventions on the economy and to the specific differential impact of the facilities on eligible issues.
Keywords: corporate credit facilities; bond liquidity; credit spreads; purchase effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G18 G19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 88
Date: 2020-07-01
Note: Revised November 2020.
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