Gibson, Rajna; Murawski, Carsten - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
Like many financial contracts, derivatives are subject to default risk. A very popular mechanism in derivatives markets … to mitigate the risk of non-performance on contracts is margining. By attaching collateral to a contract, margining … supposedly reduces default risk. The broader impacts of the different types of margins are more ambiguous, however. In this paper …