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The rapid growth of the credit default swap (CDS) market and the increased number of defaults in recent years have led to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used to settle these contracts, replacing physical transfers...
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relatively large number of asset classes, central clearing increases the mean and variance of net exposures, which may lead to …
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securities owners, securities borrowers, attributes of securities loans, collateral management, and cash reinvestment practices …
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This paper is intended to serve as a reference guide on U.S. repo and securities lending markets. It begins by presenting the institutional structure, and then describes the market landscape, the role of the participants, and other characteristics, including how repo and securities lending...
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trades at the firm level: principal amount, interest rate, collateral type, haircut, tenor, and counterparty. -- systemic …
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Market participants and policymakers alike were surprised by the large, prolonged dislocations in credit market arbitrage trades during the second half of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. In this paper, we examine three explanations proposed by market participants: increased idiosyncratic...
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Are companies with traded credit default swap (CDS) positions on their debt more likely to default? Using a proportional hazard model of bankruptcy and Merton's contingent claims approach, we estimate the probability of default for US nonfinancial firms. Our analysis does not generally find a...
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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 why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of sovereign risk transferring to corporates and...
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We employ a unique data set of public commercial real estate (CRE) bonds issued during the Great Depression era (1920-32) to determine their frequency of default and total loss given default. Default rates on these bonds far exceeded those originated in subsequent periods, driven in part by the...
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potential runs. We derive distinct liquidity, collateral, and asset liquidation constraints, which determine whether a run can … depends on whether it has sufficient liquidity, collateral, and asset liquidation capacity. These determinants are endogenous … productivity and size. Moreover, systemic runs are possible if shocks to the valuation of collateral held by outside investors are …
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