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The calculation of the capital charge for CVA risk, as required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, is usually rather unstable due to the volatility of CDS spreads. Since credit derivatives on single names are not very liquid, the implied adjustments in capital charges could be...
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Based on the theory of static replication of variance swaps we assess the sign and magnitude of variance risk premiums in foreign exchange markets. We find significantly negative risk premiums when realized variance is computed from intraday data with low frequency. As a likely consequence of...
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Swap (CDS). Through a literature review on financial risks from 2000-2015 we develop a conceptual map to assess the …
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In this note we show how to replicate a stylized CDS with a repurchase agreement and an asset swap. The latter must be …
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This paper invesitigates the influence of various fundamental variables on a cross-section of credit default swap …
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measures of the spreads of the swap rates over comparable Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) for different maturities and analyze … the relationship between the swap spreads and credit risk variables.(...) …
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One of the earliest signs of the financial crisis in summer 2007 was the plunge in the indicaaes compiled from credit default swaps (CDSs) on a basket of subprime backed bonds. Recently, the worsening situation in the emerging countries has been perceptible in the steep rise of CDS spreads on...
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We explore the dynamics of the adjusted swap spread (calculated as the difference between the swap rate and sovereign … yields over the credit default swap premium) in the Eurozone market by studying three markets simultaneously: 1) sovereign … bonds, 2) credit default swaps (CDS), and 3) swap rates. We find a strong relationship between the markets. Specifically …
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The spread risk premium component of credit default swap (CDS) spreads represents a compensation demanded by protection …
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An investor faced with a contingent claim may eliminate risk by (super-)hedging in a financial market. As this is often quite expensive, we study partial hedges, which require less capital and reduce the risk. In a previous paper we determined quantile hedges which succeed with maximal...
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