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Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, professor (by courtesy) at the Department of Economics, and Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.

Duffie is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the 2009 president of the American Finance Association. From October 2008 to April 2018 Duffie was a member of the board of directors of Moody’s Corporation. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired the Financial Stability Board’s Market Participants Group on Reference Rate Reform.

Duffie’s recent work focuses on the design and regulation of capital markets. His research is published in Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Finance, among other journals. His most recent books are How Big Banks Fail: And What to Do about It (Princeton University Press, 2010), Measuring Corporate Default Risk (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Dark Markets: Asset Pricing and Information Trasmission in Over-the-Counter Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012).

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    US Treasury Clearing Rules Likely To Be Postponed, Say Expertssubscription

    [Subscription Required] Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie said he is "confident that the SEC is consulting closely with the other regulators as it considers how to manage the implementation of its central clearing mandate."

    February 6, 2025 quoting Darrell Duffie via The Banker
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    In The Market: How Harris, Trump Promises Could Feed Market's Addiction To The Fed

    The Federal Reserve risks moving beyond its role as a lender of last resort to a prop markets need to function even in normal times. "It's a serious problem," said Hoover Institution senior fellow Darrell Duffie. "We have to redesign the financial system and regulations so that the market can digest demands for liquidity, even on stress days, and we're not there."

    October 30, 2024 quoting Darrell Duffie via Reuters
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    Darrell Duffie Demystifies Fed's Money Market Plumbing, Finds Flaws

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie warns the US government is running enormous fiscal deficits, and the amount of Treasury bonds and agency securities in the market is ginormous and is straining bank capital.

    October 18, 2024 interview with Darrell Duffie via Kathleen Hays Presents: Central Bank Central
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    The Federal Reserve Is Too Cautious On Quantitative Tighteningsubscription

    [Subscription Required] When payments to banks are delayed, they’ll know it’s time to stop reducing its balance sheet.

    June 3, 2024 by Darrell Duffie via The Wall Street Journal
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    Banking Maven Darrell Duffie Says Fed's QT Taper Plan Is Best Policy

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie says that a slow balance sheet reduction by the Fed will support financial stability.

    May 3, 2024 interview with Darrell Duffie via Kathleen Hays Presents: Central Bank Central
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    Cashless: Is Digital Currency The Future Of Finance? With Darrell Duffie

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDC), that include improved financial inclusion, lower cross-border payment costs, and more timely and secure transaction processing. Duffie sees two major impediments — privacy concerns and the potential impact on the US dollar's global dominance.

    April 17, 2024 interview with Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Darrell Duffie On Treasury Market Dysfunction, Dollar Dominance And CBDC

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses key events that impacted Treasury market functioning from GFC to COVID, whether the dollar will lose its dominance, creating new rates benchmarks, and risks to worry about.

    March 28, 2024 interview with Darrell Duffie via Macrohive
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    SEC Should Reconsider Proposed Rules On Capital Lock-Ups

    [Subscription Required] Mooted changes could have a negative impact on how the US Treasuries market functions.

    January 25, 2024 by Darrell Duffie via Financial Times
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    Dealer Capacity And US Treasury Market Functionality

    We investigate the dynamics of liquidity in the US Treasury market. In particular, we focus on the relationship between yield volatility and Treasury market illiquidity and highlight how limited dealer intermediation capacity worsens market illiquidity beyond yield volatility, but only at high levels of dealer balance sheet utilisation, as in March 2020.

    October 26, 2023 by Darrell Duffie ,Michael Fleming, Frank Keane, Claire Nelson, Or Shachar, Peter Van Tassel via Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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    Darrell Duffie On How To Fix The World’s Most Important Market

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie talks about why the Treasury market keeps experiencing problems, what can be done to fix it, and why the issue is gaining more urgency.

    August 28, 2023 interview with Darrell Duffie via Odd Lots
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    Dealer Capacity And U.S. Treasury Market Functionality

    We show a significant loss in U.S. Treasury market functionality when intensive use of dealer balance sheets is needed to intermediate bond markets, as in March 2020. Although yield volatility explains most of the variation in Treasury market liquidity over time, when dealer balance sheet utilization reaches sufficiently high levels, liquidity is much worse than predicted by yield volatility alone. 

    August 14, 2023 by Darrell Duffie ,Michael J. Fleming, Frank M. Keane, Claire Nelson, Or Shachar, Peter Van Tassel via Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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    There Won’t Be Any More Crises Over The US Defaulting On Debt Soon — But Crucial Treasury Market Infrastructure Needs Updating: Darrell Duffie

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie talks about the risks facing the US and world markets as well as how to navigate and mitigate the risks.

    June 8, 2023 interview with Darrell Duffie via Economic Times
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    Darrell Duffie: A Look At Some Of The Consequences If The US Defaults On Its Debt

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the debt ceiling and the consequences if the US defaults.

    May 22, 2023 interview with Darrell Duffie via NPR
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    Hoover Institution Hosted The United States House Select Committee On Strategic Competition Between The United States And The Chinese Communist Party

    The Hoover Institution hosted the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on April 6-7, 2023. The visiting bi-partisan delegation, which focuses on economic and security competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), consisted of 10 Members (including Chairman Mike Gallagher and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi), who participated in an intensive day-and-a-half of policy programming with Hoover’s experts on China policy. The agenda sessions highlighted the bipartisan cooperation necessary to accomplish the committee’s important work and advance American values.

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    What SVB’s Shocking Collapse Means For The Tech Industry – And The US

    With the shocking failure of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, I’m sure the lights are on late this weekend at the White House, Treasury, Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

    March 11, 2023 by Darrell Duffie via CNN
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    Market-Function Asset Purchases

    This paper investigates the goals, costs, and benefits of official-sector purchases of government securities for the purpose of restoring market functionality.

    February 28, 2023 by Darrell Duffie ,Frank M. Keane via Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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    How The LIBOR Transition Affects The Supply Of Revolving Credit

    In the United States, most commercial and industrial (C&I) lending takes the form of revolving lines of credit, known as revolvers or credit lines.

    February 3, 2023 by Darrell Duffie ,Harry Cooperman, Alena-Kang Landsberg, Stephan Luck, Zachry Wang, Yilin (David) Yang via Liberty Street Economics
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    How Abundant Are Reserves? Evidence From The Wholesale Payment System

    Before the era of large central bank balance sheets, banks relied on incoming payments to fund outgoing payments in order to conserve scarce liquidity.

    November 28, 2022 by Darrell Duffie ,Gara Afonso, Lorenzo Rigon, Hyun Song Shin via Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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    Treasurys Liquidity Problem Exposes Fed To ‘Biggest Nightmare'

    “I do think the official sector is moving, but there’s a lot more to do,” said Darrell Duffie, a Stanford University finance professor who served on that panel.

    October 6, 2022 quoting Darrell Duffie via Financial Advisor Magazine
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    Darrell Duffie: Digital Currency

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie analyzes the implications of China’s effort to retain control and undercut the influence of other digital money and cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.

    September 18, 2022 interview with Darrell Duffie via Full Measure
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    Analysis: U.S. SEC Draft Rules Could Boost Resilience Of $24 Trillion Treasury Market

    It will take months if not years to refine and implement the final details of the rules. However, they should improve "the financial stability of the market, its transparency and arguably cost," said Darrell Duffie, a finance professor at Stanford University.

    September 16, 2022 quoting Darrell Duffie via Reuters
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    Stanford GSB Faculty Members Recognized For Outstanding Teaching

    Students choose Szu-chi Huang, Scott Brady, and Darrell Duffie for 2022 teaching awards.

    June 29, 2022 mentioning Darrell Duffie, Amit Seru via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Digital Dollar: What Would Be The Impact Of A US ‘Digital Dollar’?

    US President Joe Biden has ordered the federal authorities to look into making a digital dollar, a transfer with the potential to reshape how cash is moved and used world wide.

    June 2, 2022 quoting Darrell Duffie via Crypto News BTC
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    Can China Conquer Crypto?subscription

    [Subscription Required] Ever since Bitcoin exploded onto markets, governments around the world have been exploring how to digitize their currencies. A total of 87 countries representing over 90 percent of global GDP are researching, piloting, or deploying central bank digital currencies (CBDCs): digital versions of official paper money. 

    April 22, 2022 by Darrell Duffie via Foreign Affairs
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    Excited About A Digital Dollar? Not So Fast.

    The privacy technology isn’t ready. Meanwhile, there’s a lot the U.S. can do to improve the existing payment system.

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    Darrell Duffie: Global Sanctions Against Russia Opened A New Door For China’s Digital Yuan?

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie talks about new research from the Hoover Institution concerning China’s digital yuan and the geopolitical implications of central bank digital currencies (CDBCs). Duffle examines the e-CNY’s ability to offer Russia a means to evade economic sanctions and the possibility of a digital dollar in the United States, as well as a conversation on stablecoins.

    March 8, 2022 interview with Darrell Duffie via CoinDesk
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    Digital Currencies: The US, China, And The World At A Crossroads

    This multidisciplinary report explores the economic and sociopolitical motives for China’s central bank digital currency and its implications for privacy, international security, and the leading role of the United States in global finance. Among the key findings: The US government should advocate for democratic norms of privacy, accountability, transparency, and security in shaping the global standards for digital currencies, and should improve innovation and competition in its own payment systems.

    March 3, 2022 edited by Darrell Duffie, Elizabeth Economy via Hoover Institution Press
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    Darrell Duffie: A CBDC In The US Will Take Years, But Some Benefits May Come Earlier

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses digital currencies and whether the US needs a digital currency. Duffie notes that for China and Russia to embrace digital currency before the United States has reminded some of the race to the moon.

    February 7, 2022 interview with Darrell Duffie via PYMNTS
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    Darrell Duffie: How China’s Digital Yuan Will Be Used At Beijing’s Winter Olympics

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie talks about how the digital yuan will be implemented at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and what it means for a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency, US payment systems, and the US dollar.

    January 31, 2022 interview with Darrell Duffie via Yahoo! News
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    Omicron Raises Fresh Questions: The Economy, Travel Bans, And Vaccine Distribution

    With the emergence of a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 re-opening debates about the economic impact of the pandemic, the success of efforts to achieve global distribution of vaccines and the value of travel bans, The Initiative on Global Markets invited experts to express their views on these issues. Romesh Vaitilingam summarises their views.

    January 5, 2022 quoting Darrell Duffie via LSE Business Review
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    Why CBDCs? Viral Acharya, D Subbarao And Dr Darrell Duffie Weigh In

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie talks about why central banks, like the RBI, are moving to issue digital currencies.

    December 9, 2021 interview with Darrell Duffie via Bloomberg Quint
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    Digital Currency Needs Regulation, Says Treasury Official

    Webinar hosted by Darrell Duffie discusses the risks and importance of the stablecoin market.

    November 4, 2021 quoting Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    The US Crackdown On Stablecoins Is Targeting Tether First

    The US government is cracking down on stablecoins, taking its first major shot on Oct. 15 against Tether. The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission fined the popular stablecoin operator $41 million for allegedly misstating its reserves.

    October 20, 2021 quoting Darrell Duffie via Quartz
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    What Quantity Of Reserves Is Sufficient?

    A concern of the Federal Reserve is how to manage its balance sheet and whether, over the long run, the balance sheet should be small or large. In this post, we highlight results from a recent paper in which we show how, even during a period of “ample” reserves, the Fed’s management of its balance sheet had material impacts on funding markets and especially the repo market. 

    September 30, 2021 by Darrell Duffie, Adam Copeland, Yilin (David) Yang via Liberty Street Economics
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    A Proposal To Restore Stability To The Shaken U.S. Treasury Market

    Darrell Duffie talks about an emerging consensus on major reforms to the world’s financial safe haven.

    September 22, 2021 featuring Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Reserves Were Not So Ample After All

    The Federal Reserve's “balance-sheet normalization,” which reduced aggregate reserves between 2017 and September 2019, increased repo rate distortions, the severity of rate spikes, and intraday payment timing stresses, culminating with a significant disruption in Treasury repo markets in mid-September 2019. 

    July 12, 2021 by Adam Copeland, Darrell Duffie, Yilin (David) Yang via Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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    Darrell Duffie: Building A Stronger Financial System: Opportunities Of A Central Bank Digital Currency

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on "Building A Stronger Financial System: Opportunities of a Central Bank Digital Currency."

    June 9, 2021 with Darrell Duffie via The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate
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    Time To Look Again At The Financial System’s Dangerous Fault Linessubscription

    [Subscription Required] Change is needed after the pandemic stretched markets to the limit in March last year.

    January 19, 2021 quoting Darrell Duffie via Financial Times
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    Stanford’s Duffie Shakes Up SOFR Credit Race With AXI Indexsubscription

    [Subscription required] Academics propose new credit index that ditches Libor tenors for a single funding spread.

    August 3, 2020 featuring Darrell Duffie via Risk.net
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    Across-The-Curve Credit Spread Indices

    This note presents a preliminary approach to the design of an across-the-curve credit spread index (AXI). The index is a measure of the recent average cost of wholesale unsecured debt fund- ing for publicly listed U.S. bank holding companies and their commercial banking subsidiaries.

    July 23, 2020 by Antje Berndt, Darrell Duffie, Yichao Zhu via Darrell Duffie
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    Still The World’s Safe Haven? Redesigning The U.S. Treasury Market After The COVID-19 Crisis

    The market for U.S. Treasuries has long been viewed as the world’s most liquid and deepest financial market. That presumption was questioned when the COVID-19 crisis triggered heavy investor demands for trading that overwhelmed the capacity of dealers who usually serve as middlemen in this market. Over several tense days in March, yields rose sharply, calling into question the longstanding view that Treasuries are a reliable safe haven in a crisis. 

    June 22, 2020 by Darrell Duffie via Brookings Institution
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    Darrell Duffie On Treasury Markets And The Post-COVID Path To Financial Stability

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the treasury market problems that emerged in March 2020 and what can be done to avoid them in the future.

    June 15, 2020 interview with Darrell Duffie via Macro Musings
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    Still The World’s Safe Haven? Redesigning The U.S. Treasury Market After The COVID-19 Crisis

    The market for U.S. Treasuries has long been viewed as the world’s most liquid and deepest financial market. That presumption was questioned when the COVID-19 crisis triggered heavy investor demands for trading that overwhelmed the capacity of dealers who usually serve as middlemen in this market.

    May 27, 2020 by Darrell Duffie via Brookings Institution
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    Darrell Duffie: You’ll Be Using Digital Currency Before You Know It

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses global pressure to transition to e-money, which is pushing US banks to do the same.

    May 6, 2020 interview with Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Covid-19 Leaves Harvard In ‘Grave’ Financial Situation, Experts Say

    The novel coronavirus pandemic has nearly emptied Harvard’s campus, sending students and faculty home for the remainder of the semester. It has also plunged the world into what Rutgers Business School professor John Longo called “the most serious financial crisis since the Great Recession and perhaps the Great Depression.”

    March 19, 2020 quoting Darrell Duffie via The Crimson
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    Darrell Duffie On The Financial Markets In A Coronavirus World

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the volatility of the financial markets and potential stabilizing measures.

    March 17, 2020 interview with Darrell Duffie via Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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    Darrell Duffie On Our Big Stablecoin Future

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses crypto currencies and their future.

    January 3, 2020 interview with Darrell Duffie via CoinDesk
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    QE Or Not, World’s Most Elite Bond Club Is Getting Its Mojo Back

    Regardless of what you think about the Federal Reserve’s decision to get back into the business of buying Treasuries, one thing is clear: It’s a good time to be a primary dealer.

    October 28, 2019 quoting Darrell Duffie via Yahoo Finance
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    Darrell Duffie: U.S. Banking Sector: Better Than Before

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie examines “bail-in” regulations and the risk of another financial collapse.

    October 4, 2019 interview with Darrell Duffie via Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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    Darrell Duffie: Facebook Announces Plans For Libra, Its Own Cryptocurrency

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses Libra, Facebook's new crypto-currency.

    June 18, 2019 interview with Darrell Duffie via WESM 91.3 FM
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    Cyber Runs: How A Cyber Attack Could Affect U.S. Financial Institutions

    Cyber risks to financial stability have received significant attention from policy makers. These risks are worsened by the increasing diversity of perpetrators—including state and non-state actors, cyber terrorists, and “hacktivists”—who are not necessarily motivated by financial gain.

    June 18, 2019 by Darrell Duffie, Joshua Younger via Brookings Institution
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    Digital Currencies And Fast Payment Systems

    I examine monetary policy implications and business strategy concerns related to the introduction of digital currencies and faster payment systems. Key issues include financial inclusion, payment system efficiency, control by central banks of monetary policy transmission, privacy and anti-monetary laundering, and competition for banking services.

    June 1, 2019 by Darrell Duffie via Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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    Darrell Duffie: How Is Silicon Valley Changing Wall Street?

    Hoover Institution fellow Darrell Duffie discusses the implications of emerging technologies that are enabling a new era of high-speed, next-generation finance, ranging from the proliferation of digital payment systems to the dizzying speeds associated with our trading systems, where competitive advantages play out over nanoseconds.

    April 2, 2019 interview with Darrell Duffie via Stanford University School of Engineering
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    Can The US Print Its Way Out Of A Deficit?

    When governments collect less money through taxes than they spend, they run deficits. But the US government borrows in the same currency it issues, so can’t it use its printing power to help balance its budget and avoid a deficit

    March 20, 2019 quoting Darrell Duffie via Chicago Booth Review
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    UK Examines Compression Auctions For Libor Transition

    The Bank of England’s working group on the transition from Libor to a new risk-free reference is reviewing the use of compression auctions to decrease risk during the changeover.

    February 20, 2019 quoting Darrell Duffie via Markets Media
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    Powell Faces Early Reckoning On Fed's $4-Trillion Question

    Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a problem: how to explain that the Fed may soon begin to taper its ongoing asset-shedding operation without looking like he’s hunkering down for a coming recession, or caving to U.S. President Donald Trump.

    January 28, 2019 quoting Darrell Duffie via Reuters
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    An Overview Of Value At Risk

    This article gives a broad and accessible overview of models of value at risk (WR), a popular measure of the market risk of a financial firm’s “book,” the list of positions in various instruments that expose the firm to financial risk. Roughly speaking, the value at risk of a portfolio is the loss in market value over a given time period, such as one day or two weeks, that is exceeded with a small probability, such as 1%.

    January 11, 2019 by Darrell Duffie, Jun Pan via The Journal of Derivatives
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    Prone to Fail: The Pre-Crisis Financial System

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    December 8, 2018 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Lessons From The Crisis

    In the years leading up to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the core of the financial system was vulnerable to major shocks emanating from any of a variety of sources. This presentation reviews the lessons from the crisis.

    December 7, 2018 by Darrell Duffie via Revisiting the 2008 Financial Crisis
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    Prone to Fail: The Pre-Crisis Financial System

    In the years leading up to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the core of the financial system was vulnerable to major shocks emanating from any of a variety of sources. While this particular crisis was triggered by over-levered home owners and a severe downturn in U.S. housing markets (Mian and Sufi, 2015), a reasonably well supervised financial system would have been much more resilient to this and other types of severe shocks. (Slides)

    July 19, 2018 by Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Post-Crisis Bank Regulations and Financial Market Liquidity

    This is the manuscript of the Baffi Lecture that I delivered at Banca d’Italia in September 2017. I address the implications for financial-market liquidity of post-crisis capital and failureresolution rules for systemically important banks. I focus especially on over-the-counter (OTC) markets, which handle most of the world’s trade in bonds, repos, swaps, commodities, and foreign exchange.

    March 31, 2018 by Darrell Duffie via Baffi Lecture, Banca d’Italia in Rome
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    Why the leverage ratio distorts market-making

    Big increases in the capital requirements of bank-affiliated dealers have drained liquidity from over-the-counter markets, especially for products that occupy a lot of space on dealer balance sheets, such as bonds, swaps, repos and foreign exchange contracts.

    January 3, 2017 by Darrell Duffie via Risk.net
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    Passthrough Efficiency in the Fed’s New Monetary Policy Setting

    We show how the current institutional setting of U.S.-dollar money markets limits the passthrough effectiveness of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. We focus on frictions associated with imperfect competition, regulation, infrastructure, and other forms of institutional segmentation within money markets. We model how imperfect competition is exacerbated by costs to cash investors associated with search and information attention. Bloomberg radio interview (audio).

    August 30, 2016 by Darrell Duffie, Arvind Krishnamurthy via Jackson Hole Symposium of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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    Financial regulatory reform after the crisis: an assessment

    This report offers a brief assessment of the post-crisis regulatory reform of the financial system: the most sweeping re-regulation of banking and financial markets since the US “New Deal” reforms2 conducted during the Great Depression. (Presentation slidespresentation video, beginning at minute 5:00).

    June 1, 2016 by Darrell Duffie via 2016 ECB Forum on Central Banking, Sintra, Portugal
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    Systemic Risk In Financial Systems And Capital Markets In Relationship With The Proposed Draft Capital Markets Stability Act

    Le présent rapport examine certaines questions relatives à l’ébauche d’avant-projet de la Loi sur la stabilité des marchés des capitaux (LSMC). Les enjeux liés à la LSMC ne sont pas étudiés de façon exhaustive dans ce rapport. Il s’agit d’un rapport parmi plusieurs rapports d’experts, chacun traitant d’un sous-ensemble de questions. 

    May 3, 2016 by Darrell Duffie via Canada's Department of Justice
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    Submission in Response to U.S. Treasury Notice Seeking Public Comment on the Evolution of the Treasury Market Structure

    I am grateful to be permitted to submit this response. I will address only a narrow set of issues related to the liquidity of secondary markets for treasuries. Secondary treasury market efficiency has been of increasing concern to me over the past decade, and especially over the past five years. I believe changes in market performance are due to a number of factors, among which the two most important are the following.

    April 24, 2016 by Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business
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    Why Are Big Banks Offering Less Liquidity To Bond Markets?

    Almost every day we read another salvo of arguments in the debate over whether bond market liquidity has been harmed by new banking regulations. Based on bid-ask spreads and most other standard liquidity metrics, bond markets appear to be about as liquid as they have been for a long time. Liquidity is worse, however, for larger-sized trades. If necessary to achieve financial stability, this is a cost well worth bearing. 

    March 11, 2016 by Darrell Duffie via Forbes
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    Challenges to a Policy Treatment of Speculative Trading Motivated by Differences in Beliefs

    Economics Working Paper WP14106

    February 1, 2014 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Central Clearing and Collateral Demand

    Economics Working Paper WP14104

    January 1, 2014 by Darrell Duffie, Martin Scheicher, Guillaume Vuillemey via Economics Working Papers
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    Financial Market Infrastructure: Too Important To Fail

    Economics Working Paper WP14101

    January 1, 2014 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Replumbing Our Financial System: Uneven Progress

    Economics Working Paper WP12108

    July 19, 2012 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Market Making Under the Proposed Volcker Rule

    Economics Working Paper WP12101

    January 18, 2012 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Federal Interpretation of Volcker Rule Would Lead to Constraints on U.S. Economic Growth and Recovery

    Finance professor Darrell Duffie of the Stanford Graduate School of Business proposes alternative capital requirements for banks to eliminate potential unintended consequences of financial reform.

    January 17, 2012 by Darrell Duffie via Stanford Graduate School of Business News
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    After MF Global: how to protect customers’ cash

    Firewall between futures brokers and customer funds needed

    December 5, 2011 by Darrell Duffie via Financial Times
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    Policy Issues in the Design of Tri-Party Repo Markets

    Economics Working Paper WP11109

    July 31, 2011 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Systemic Risk Exposures: A 10-by-10-by-10 Approach

    Economics Working Paper WP11108

    July 28, 2011 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    On the Clearing of Foreign Exchange Derivatives

    Economics Working Paper WP11105

    May 12, 2011 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It

    Dealer banks--that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs--are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. When they fail, as we saw in the global financial crisis, they pose significant risks to our financial system and the world economy. How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It examines how these banks collapse and how we can prevent the need to bail them out.

    November 7, 2010 by Darrell Duffie via Princeton University Press
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    The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

    In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform.

    June 14, 2010 by Darrell Duffie, John H. Cochrane via Princeton University Press
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    Is There a Case for Banning Short Speculation in Sovereign Bond Markets?

    Economics Working Paper WP10105

    May 25, 2010 by Darrell Duffie via Economics Working Papers
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    Ending Government Bailouts As We Know Them

    The American people are clearly upset about the massive government bailouts of faltering organizations and the consequent commitment of taxpayer dollars-as well as the heavy involvement of the federal government in private sector activities.

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    In Defense of Financial Speculation

    George Soros, Washington Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell and others are proposing to curb speculative trading and even outlaw it in credit default swap (CDS) markets. . . .

    February 24, 2010 by Darrell Duffie via Wall Street Journal
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    The Road Ahead for the Fed

    The Federal Reserve is the single most important economic policy institution in the United States. Its recent unprecedented actions and interventions have raised serious concerns in many quarters about inflation, as well as the independence and effectiveness of the Fed.

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    How Should We Regulate Derivatives’ Markets?

    Reformers must rewrite the rules and support the market efficiencies of the derivatives market.

    August 24, 2009 by Darrell Duffie via Defining Ideas
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    Derivatives and Mass Financial Destruction

    Complex financial products can be useful if regulated properly.

    October 22, 2008 by Darrell Duffie via Wall Street Journal
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    Testimony on the Credit Crunch

    Testimony before Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

    July 9, 2008 featuring Darrell Duffie via Analysis
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