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Insider trading in the credit derivatives market has become a significant concern for regulators and participants. This … report evidence of significant incremental information revelation in the credit default swap (CDS) market, consistent with … affects prices or liquidity in either the equity or credit markets. If anything, with regard to liquidity, the reverse appears …
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140% of exports. Second, we depart from reduced form growth regressions and perform direct tests of the theory on the thus …
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This paper analyses the interaction of financing and output market decisions in an oligopolistic setting. We integrate two ideas that have been analysed separately in previous work: some authors argue that due to risk-shifting, debt (leverage) makes a firm 'aggressive' in its output market;...
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We show that financial sector bailouts and sovereign credit risk are intimately linked. A bailout benefits the economy … two-way feedback between financial and sovereign credit risk using data on the credit default swaps (CDS) of the Eurozone …, the latter being consistent with an effect of the quality of sovereign guarantees on bank credit risk. …
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We analyze credit default swap settlement auctions theoretically and evaluate them empirically. In our theoretical …
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We develop a model of equilibrium entry, trade, and price formation in over-the-counter (OTC) markets. Banks trade derivatives to share an aggregate risk subject to two trading frictions: they must pay a fixed entry cost, and they must limit the size of the positions taken by their traders...
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the impact of the credit risk of Eurozone member countries on the stability … of the Euro. In the absence of a common euro bond, euro-area credit risk is induced though the credit default swaps of … member countries have significant impact on the stability of the euro. In particular, an increase in member countries’ credit …
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This Paper analyses the response of stock and credit default swap (CDS) markets to rating announcements by the three …
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We study how inefficiencies of market failure may be further amplified by political choices made by interest groups created in the inefficient market. We take an occupational choice framework, where agents are endowed heterogeneously with wealth and talent. In our model, market failure due to...
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This paper presents a market with asymmetric information where a privately revealing equilibrium obtains in a competitive framework and where incentives to acquire information are preserved. The equilibrium is efficient, and the paradoxes associated with fully revealing rational expectations...
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