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Are all Credit Default Swap Databases Equal?

Mayordomo, Sergio - 2010

The presence of different prices in different databases for the same securities can impair the comparability of research efforts and seriously damage the management decisions based upon such research. In this study we compare the six major sources of corporate Credit Default Swap prices: GFI,...

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Credit Default Swaps and the Empty Creditor Problem

Bolton, Patrick - 2010

Commentators have raised concerns about the empty creditor problem that arises when a debtholder has obtained insurance against default but otherwise retains control rights in and outside bankruptcy. We analyze this problem from an ex-ante and ex-post perspective in a formal model of debt with...

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Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis

Stulz, René M. - 2009

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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The Market for OTC Derivatives

Atkeson, Andrew G. - 2013

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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Derivatives Markets for Home Prices

Shiller, Robert J. - 2008

beginnings of real estate derivative markets is the advance in home price index construction methods, notably the repeat sales …

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Derivatives Usage in Risk Management by US and German Non-Financial Firms : A Comparative Survey

Bodnar, Gordon M. - 1998

This paper is a comparative study of the responses to the 1995 Wharton School survey of derivative usage among US non … derivative usage is most common, followed closely by interest rate derivatives, with commodity derivatives a distant third. In … choice of instruments, and the influence of their market view when taking derivative positions. These differences appear to …

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Dollarization of Liabilities : Underinsurance and Domestic Financial Underdevelopment

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

While there is still much disagreement on the causes underlying recent emerging markets' crises, one factor that most observers have agreed upon is that contracting dollar' (foreign currency) denominated external debt as opposed to domestic currency debt created balance sheet mismatches that led...

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Rent Guarantee Insurance

Abramson, Boaz; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...

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Economic Growth and Bank Innovation

Gorton, Gary; He, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Based on archival and survey data we show that the maturity of U.S. business loans has been continuously increasing since the mid-1930s when banks invented the term loan. Concurrently, bank innovation first involved the invention of credit analysis and covenant design. Later, bank innovation...

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CLO Performance

Cordell, Larry; Roberts, Michael R.; Schwert, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the performance of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) to understand the market imperfections giving rise to these vehicles and their corresponding economic costs. CLO equity tranches earn positive abnormal returns from the risk-adjusted price differential between leveraged loans and...

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