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Research on Treasury demand and market resilience

Working paper · August 2026

Dissecting Treasury Market Resilience

Kristy A. E. Jansen, Wenhao Li, and Lukas Schmid

The paper studies foreign withdrawals, inflation, and quantitative tightening. It shows that the required yield adjustment depends on who absorbs the shock, whether it persists, and how policy responds.

NBER Working Paper 33243

Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs

Kristy A. E. Jansen, Wenhao Li, and Lukas Schmid

The paper combines sector-level Treasury holdings with a structural model of dealers and hedge funds. It shows why market elasticity falls with maturity and how cross-maturity substitution changes the response of term premia to monetary tightening.

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