Caglio, Cecilia; Darst, R. Matthew; Parolin, Eric - 2018 - Current version: January 31, 2018
We construct a novel U.S. data set that matches bank holding company credit default swap (CDS) positions to detailed U ….S. credit registry data containing both loan and corporate bond holdings to study the effects of banks' CDS use on corporate … credit quality. Banks may use CDS to mitigate agency frictions and not renegotiate loans with solvent but illiquid borrowers …