When the stock market dropped in March and April of 2020, demand for US Treasurys—usually a safe haven during stock market tumult—seemed to drop. This could have been a sign of ominous economic tides: a loss of faith in US debt, or rising inflationary expectations. But Chicago Booth’s Zhiguo He and Stefan Nagel and Johns Hopkins’s Zhaogang Song find evidence for a regulatory explanation.
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