In response to rising global government debt, sovereign debt management offices (DMOs) are increasingly refining their issuance methods to optimize investor engagement and minimize borrowing costs. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a two-stage Treasury auction design that incorporates a...

Ranaldo and Rossi (2016) presented data on the history of Swiss treasury bond auctions that covered the period from 1980, when the auction mechanism was implemented, to 2014. In this study, we extend the set of observations until 2023 and provide additional information for the entire sample. In...

Various macroeconomic announcements are known to influence asset price volatility. While contemplating the impact of a variety of macro news surprises, we highlight the importance of Treasury auctions – a news event that has ramifications for interest rates across the economy and which are...

Using 15-minute intervals over the period 2000 - 2017, we show that auctions of U.S. Treasury securities have an economic and statistically significant impact on the 10-year Treasury note futures market. Prices move higher, volatility increases, and there is an upturn in trading volume in the...

I empirically show that underpricing of uniform-price U.S. Treasury auctions is explained by risk premia. I posit that intermediaries demand a risk premium to offset future secondary market price uncertainty, in which uncertainty is captured by treasury auction return volatility, which is...

I develop a model explaining the gradual price decrease observed ahead of anticipated asset sales, such as Treasury auctions. In the model, risk-averse investors expect an increase in the net supply of a risky asset, about which they have a noisy signal. They face a trade-off between hedging the...

Recent literature attributes the temporary drop in secondary Treasury prices before a Treasury auction to primary dealers' limited risk-bearing capacity. However, we document a decline of more than 45% in the Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) auction amount allocated to dealers over...