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2 - The Government Securities Market

from Part I - The System and the Market in the 1940s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2021

Kenneth D. Garbade
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Describes the infrastructure of the Treasury market on the eve of the Accord, including the gradual, not yet completed, suspension of wartime ceilings on Treasury yields, methods for selling securities in the primary market (regular and predictable bill auctions versus fixed-price cash and exchange offerings of coupon-bearing debt), and the role of dealers in secondary market trading.

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After the Accord
A History of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations, the US Government Securities Market, and Treasury Debt Management from 1951 to 1979
, pp. 9 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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