Macro Musings with David Beckworth Darrell Duffie on Treasury Markets and the Post-COVID Path to Financial Stability
Darrell Duffie is a professor of finance at Stanford University, and he joins Macro Musings to discuss the treasury market problems that emerged in March 2020 and what can be done to avoid them in the future. Specifically, Darrell and David lay out the current state of financial markets, the ability of treasury markets, as currently designed, to handle demand shocks, and how central banking reforms can better ensure financial stability in the future.
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Transcript for the episode can be found here.
Darrell's Twitter: @DuffieDarrell
Darrell's website: https://www.darrellduffie.com/
Darrell's Stanford profile: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/darrell-duffie
Related Links:
Bonus segment with Darrell:
*Pass-through Efficiency in the Fed's New Monetary Policy Setting* by Darrell Duffie and Arvind Krishnamurthy
*The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks* by Darrell Duffie
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.24.1.51
*Still the World's Safe Haven? Redesigning the U.S. Treasury Market after the COVID-19 Crisis* by Darrell Duffie
https://www.brookings.edu/research/still-the-worlds-safe-haven/
David's blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth