Who Drains Bond Market Liquidity in an Emerging Market?

By Ricardo Hoyos, Yang Liu, Hui Miao, Christian Saborowski

July 24, 2020

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Ricardo Hoyos, Yang Liu, Hui Miao, and Christian Saborowski. Who Drains Bond Market Liquidity in an Emerging Market?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the drivers of liquidity shortages in the Mexican government bond market. We use unique transaction- and quote level data with information on end-investors to construct an index of bond market liquidity. We find that liquidity remained stable in recent years, although temporary shortages arose amid domestic and global market stress. The analysis suggests that the largest liquidity squeezes have tended to be driven by foreign investors, whose sell-offs were especially pronounced in less liquid market segments. While domestic banks often absorbed part of the shock, other domestic investors—with the notable inclusion of domestic pension and mutual funds—appeared to take a more opportunistic stance depending on the nature of the shock.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Liquidity, Liquidity indicators, Liquidity management, Securities, Securities markets, Sovereign bonds

Keywords: Benchmark securities, Bond market liquidity, Global, Liquidity, Liquidity depletion, Liquidity index, Liquidity indicator, Liquidity management, Liquidity shortage, Liquidity stress, Securities, Securities markets, Sovereign bonds, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Working Paper No. 2020/141
Stock No:

WPIEA2020141
ISBN:

9781513550824
ISSN:

1018-5941

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