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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 … effect of the quality of sovereign guarantees on bank credit risk …
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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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crisis. Two large bets on real estate made with funding that was vulnerable to bank-run like behavior on the part of funders …
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When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one reason for why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of a transfer from the sovereign risk to corporate...
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How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...
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From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on …
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We develop a model of equilibrium entry, trade, and price formation in over-the- counter (OTC) markets. Banks trade derivatives to share an aggregate risk subject to two trading frictions: they must pay a fixed entry cost, and they must limit the size of the positions taken by their traders...
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first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling …
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We develop a structural credit risk model to examine how the interactions of liquidity and default risk affect corporate bond pricing. By explicitly modeling debt rollover and by endogenizing the holding costs via collateralized financing, our model generates rich links between liquidity risk...
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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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