Authors:

  • David Scharfstein
  • Samuel Hanson
  • Adi Sunderam

Excerpt

An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals. Samuel Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, Adi Sunderam, April 2013, Paper. "We analyze the leading reform proposals to address the structural vulnerabilities of money market mutual funds (MMFs). We assume that the main goal of MMF reform is safeguarding financial stability. In light of this goal, reforms should reduce the ex ante incentives for MMFs to take excessive risk and increase the ex post resilience of MMFs to system-wide runs. Our analysis suggests that requiring MMFs to have subordinated capital buffers could generate significant financial stability benefits. Subordinated capital provides MMFs..." Link