QRA Watch

Treasury Maturity Composition Research

An open, artifact-driven research project measuring whether Treasury's bill-versus-coupon mix operates like a shadow form of balance-sheet policy—changing public duration supply, term premia, and market plumbing. All data is sourced from public APIs and official filings.

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Evidence Hierarchy & Claim Boundary

This project maintains an explicit boundary between what the current evidence can and cannot support. The sections below separate headline measurement, reduced-form pricing, and bounded causal evidence.

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Current State

High-level status of each research lane, sourced from backend artifact metadata.

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Treasury Maturity Composition

The headline measurement object. Official quarterly financing data is reconstructed from Treasury auction settlements and QRA documents. The Maturity-Tilt Flow measures coupon shortfall relative to an 18% bill-share baseline—positive values mean more bill-heavy financing.

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Transmission Mechanism

Two headline channels through which maturity composition may affect markets: the bills/reserves/ON RRP substitution channel (plumbing) and the broader public duration supply framework.

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Pricing: Rates & Term Premium

Reduced-form pricing regressions linking maturity composition to long rates and term premia. This layer is published as supporting/provisional evidence—not a settled structural claim.

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Bounded QRA Causal Lane

A narrower, bounded supporting lane. The event-causal surface is currently a small post-2022Q3 financing pilot—not a settled full-sample design. This section is separate from the broader pricing results and should be read as supporting rather than headline evidence.

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Methods, Provenance & Data Status

This site reads only from published backend artifacts. No raw or interim data is accessed by the frontend. All outputs are regenerated from source via make regenerate.

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Supporting Extensions

Supplementary datasets providing context on investor composition, dealer positioning, and money market fund holdings. These are supporting status surfaces, not headline empirical conclusions.

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