Helwege, Jean; Maurer, Samuel; Sarkar, Asani; Wang, Yuan - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009
to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used …, auctions will become a standard feature of all recent CDS contracts from now on. In this paper, we examine all of the CDS … auctions conducted to date and evaluate their efficacy by comparing the auction outcomes to prices of the underlying bonds in …