The Behavior of the Spread Between Treasury Bill Rates and Private Money Market Rates Since 1978
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The Behavior of the Spread Between Treasury Bill Rates and Private Money Market Rates Since 1978
The Behavior of the Spread between Treasury Bill Rates and Private Money Market Rates Since 1978
Date Written: 1983
Abstract
The Treasury bill rate is generally viewed as the representative money market rate. For this reason bill rates are almost always used in studies of the determinants of short-term interest rate levels and spreads, and bill rates are typically used as the index rate for variable-rate financial contracts.
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