TY  - JOUR
AU  - Longstaff,Francis A.
TI  - The Flight-to-Liquidity Premium in U.S. Treasury Bond Prices
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9312
PY  - 2002
Y2  - November 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9312
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9312.pdf
AB  - We examine whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of bonds issued by Refcorp, a U.S. Government agency, which are guaranteed by the Treasury. We find a large liquidity premium in Treasury bonds, which can be more than fifteen percent of the value of some Treasury bonds. This liquidity premium is related to changes in consumer confidence, the amount of Treasury debt available to investors, and flows into equity and money market mutual funds. This suggests that the popularity of Treasury bonds directly a.ects their value.
ER  -