one clearing system participant's failure to settle will cause one or more other participants to default. The danger of … systemic failure exists in a clearing system in which payment messages are exchanged during the day but funds are transferred …

Counterparty Clearing has become increasingly popular in Europe, not just in derivatives markets, where, due to the high risk … the increased sophistication in clearing arrangements is the ongoing process of European economic integration, ie the euro … pan-European financial infrastructure for payments and securities clearing and settlement. <p> Central counterparty …

In this paper we consider equilibrium behavior in a Dutch (descending price) auction where the bidders are uninformed … auction. We assume that the information acquisition activity is covert. We characterize the equilibrium behavior in a setting …, the Dutch auction produces more revenue than would a first price auction. …

In this paper we consider equilibrium behavior in a Dutch (descending price) auction where the bidders are uninformed … auction. We assume that the information acquisition activity is covert. We characterize the equilibrium behavior in a setting …, the Dutch auction produces more revenue than would a first price auction. …

economies, this paper explores a number of regulatory reforms that would alter the balance between seeking to avoid insolvency … and lowering the costs of insolvency should it occur. In particular it considers whether a lex specialis for dealing with …

useful for estimating recovery rates required by many popular models of credit risk and for determining collateral haircuts … in debt transactions. The analysis also generates testable predictions of the behaviour of historical recovery rates of …