Online Appendix- Further Robustness Tests- An online appendix to "Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending".Full Publication: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3340251" Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and Securities Lending

This paper studies how over-the-counter market liquidity is affected by securities lending. We combine micro-data on corporate bond market trades with securities lending transactions and individual corporate bond holdings by U.S. insurance companies. Applying a difference-in-differences...

Privately-produced safe debt is designed so that there is no adverse selection in trade. But in some macro states, here the onset of the pandemic, it becomes profitable for some agents to produce private information, and then agents face adverse selection when they trade the debt (i.e., it...

The cost of selling a security short is an equilibrium outcome of the demand for short positions and the willingness of long-term institutional investors to lend their securities to short sellers. We introduce an imperfectly competitive securities lending market into a model of securities...