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An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals. Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, Adi Sunderam, May 2014, Paper. "U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007-2009, resulting in extraordinary government support to help stabilize the funding of global financial institutions. In light of the problems that emerged during the crisis, a number of MMF reforms have been proposed..."