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Competitive Bids
A competitive bid is an offer to the US Treasury to purchase treasury securities at a particular yield. A competitive is submitted with a yield (to 2 decimal places) on a bank discount basis. For example, if you want to buy $100,000 in six-month Treasury bills and pay them a price of $99,000, the competitive bid that you propose to the Federal Reserve Bank is 2%.
Up to 1998, the Federal Reserve Bank would accept proposals that had the lowest discount rates (higher prices) over all those received. The proposals accepted had a rank of yields from the lowest to the highest. The highest yield (the lowest price) accepted for the new treasury securities issued in a treasury auction is known as the stop-out yield. Investors that got their proposal accepted at the stop-out yield or close to it received greater returns than those received by proposals at the lowest accepted yields. This concept is referred to as the winner’s curse. However, every treasury auction now use the single price or Dutch auction in which all the winning proposals that were lower than the stop-out yield are accepted and therefore, eliminating themselves from the winner’s curse.
For example if the range of accepted yields is 1.12% to 1.22% every bidder receives 1.22%.
Yield bids depend on money-market yields that are offered through the competence of short-term instruments, as to expectations in the short-term rates that apply to T-bills. Through a study of these rates an investor has greater probabilities to offer a proposal that is accepted.
With the competitive bidding investors confront the risk of not getting their proposal accepted if the same are above the stop-out yields. The advantage of allocating a competitive bid is that an investor can bid for larger amounts of money in an auction than a non-competitive bidder.
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