
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh is a Senior Economist with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. He writes extensively on topical issues including rehypothecation of collateral, collateral velocity and reuse, monetary policy and collateral, shadow banking, deleveraging in financial markets, and under-collateralisation and counterparty risk in OTC derivatives market. He has written a new book "Collateral and Financial Plumbing" that looks at all the above themes from the lens of financial collateral. Manmohan has led work-shops for the IMF to official sector policy makers on strategic asset allocation and impact of regulations on financial markets. He has also worked and written policy notes on several countries including Chile, Japan, India, U.S., U.K, etc. He holds a PhD and MBA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. from Allegheny College.
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Why central banks shouldn’t ignore stablecoins
Rapid growth of stablecoins could impair monetary policy transmission
Why fears about quantitative tightening are overblown
The benefits of collateral availability may outweigh the monetary liquidity withdrawn by central banks
Hedge funds and the rebound in collateral velocity
Reuse rate of collateral points to growing fragility and interconnectedness in financial markets
Net losers? Benefits of clearing US Treasuries are cloudy
Practical obstacles and questionable netting benefits muddy the path to a clearing mandate, argues economist
Collateral must be part of monetary policy equation
Incorporating collateral efficiency into IS-LM model reveals side-effects of QE
Leverage is underestimated
Off-balance sheet funding is large, rising and not fully accounted for in leverage metrics
How collateral scarcity reshaped the US yield curve
QE and demand for high-quality liquid assets have suppressed short-term rates, argue IMF economists
The case for draining excess reserves
The financial system can operate efficiently with $500 billion or less in reserves after normalisation
Central counterparty resolution: an unresolved problem
This paper describes the current policy for recovery and resolution of CCPs and assesses the tool kit for resolution of them.
Collateral flows and balance sheet(s) space
This paper looks at securities-lending, derivatives and prime-brokerage markets as suppliers of collateral.