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spreads, and bond liquidity measures including Bond-CDS spreads and bid-ask spreads in the data. Through a structural … and up to 55% of the credit spread changes over the business cycle. As an application, we use this framework to …
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Increased competition from the internet has raised concerns about the quality of prescription drugs sold online. Given … the pressure from the Department of Justice, Google agreed to ban pharmacies not certified by the National Association of …
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The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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credit default swap (CDS) spreads of emerging market sovereigns around the outbreak of COVID-19. Using 2014-2019 data, we … positively associated with the CDS spreads. The evidence suggests that the epidemiological deterioration can lower confidence in … also hold for a single regression of daily spread changes during 2014-2020 …
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-way feedback between financial and sovereign credit risk using data on the credit default swaps (CDS) of the Eurozone countries for … widening of sovereign CDS spreads and narrowing of bank CDS spreads; however, post-bailouts there emerged a significant co …-movement between bank CDS and sovereign CDS, even after controlling for banks' equity performance, the latter being consistent with an …
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Many observers have argued that credit default swaps contributed significantly to the credit crisis. Of particular concern to these observers are that credit default swaps trade in the largely unregulated over-the-counter market as bilateral contracts involving counterparty risk and that they...
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We evaluate the efficacy of the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), a program designed to stabilize the corporate bond market in the wake of the Covid-19 shock. The Fed announced the SMCCF on March 23 and expanded the program on April 9. Regression discontinuity estimates imply...
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influence on corporate credit risks. All else equal, a 100 basis points increase in the sovereign CDS spread leads to an … strong property rights protection. Using a novel credit default swaps (CDS) dataset covering both government and corporate … increase in corporate CDS spreads by 71 basis points. (2) The sovereign-corporate relation varies across corporations, with …
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The near-failure on September 16, 2008, of American International Group (AIG) was an iconic moment in the financial crisis. Two large bets on real estate made with funding that was vulnerable to bank-run like behavior on the part of funders pushed AIG to the brink of bankruptcy. AIG used...
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Empirical tests of reduced form models of default attribute a large fraction of observed credit spreads to compensation for jump-to-default risk. However, these models preclude a "contagion-risk'' channel, where the aggregate corporate bond index reacts adversely to a credit event. In this...
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