Bellia, Mario; Girardi, Giulio; Panzica, Roberto Calogero; … - 2022
repository data on single-name sovereign credit default swap (CDS) transactions and show that both the seller and the buyer … clearing incentives seem particularly responsive to seller credit risk, which is in line with the notion that counterparty … credit risk (CCR) is asymmetric in CDS contracts. The riskiness of the underlying reference entity also enters the decision …