FEDS Paper: Market Liquidity in Treasury Futures Market During March 2020
Eleni Gousgounis, Scott Mixon, Tugkan Tuzun, and Clara VegaWe study the behavior of liquidity providers and liquidity consumers in the 10-year U.S. Treasury futures market during the height of the COVID-19 shock in March 2020, a period of market turmoil when demand for liquidity was high. In March 2020, PTFs reduced their volume of liquidity providing trades as a share of total trading volume.