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This study investigates the link between price discovery dynamics in sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) and bond … markets and degree of financial integration of emerging markets. Using CDS and sovereign bond spreads, the price discovery … that sovereign CDS and bond markets are cointegrated. In 57 percent of times, the CDS market leads in price discovery by …
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Bond markets in emerging markets are illiquid as investors and issuers grapple with major microstructure and legal issues. The importance of bond markets as a source of finance has increased during the economic slowdown as companies diversified away from reliance on banks for funding and many...
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This doctoral thesis develops regime-switching models of the term structure of interest rates. A general framework is proposed to model the joint dynamics of yield curves associated with different debtors (Chapter 2). This framework is exploited to analyse the fluctuations of ten euro-area...
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Using a rich dataset of high frequency historical information we study the determinants of European sovereign bond returns over calm and crisis periods. We find that the importance of the equity risk factor varies greatly over time and crucially depends on country risk. In low risk countries,...
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This paper investigates the role of credit and liquidity factors in explaining corporate CDS price changes during …. Moreover, in the period prior to the recent ‘Great Recession’ credit risk plays no role in explaining CDS price changes. The … dominance of liquidity effects casts serious doubts on the relevance of CDS price changes as an indicator of default risk …
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We use transfer entropy to quantify information flows between financial mar- kets and propose a suitable bootstrap procedure for statistical inference. Trans- fer entropy is a model-free measure designed as the Kullback-Leibler distance of transition probabilities. Our approach allows to...
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The fallout from the 2008 financial crisis has been particularly acute in the euro area Member States of the south-western rim and in the new EU Member States, due to their previously accumulated macroeconomic and financial imbalances. The perception that the euro environment provided a solid...
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Credit default swaps (CDS) have been growing in importance in the global financial markets. However, their role has … literature on CDS that has accumulated over the past two decades. We divide our survey into seven topics after providing a broad … overview in the introduction. The second section traces the historical development of CDS markets and provides an introduction …
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estimate the credit default swap premium (CDS) needed to insure each fund’s portfolio against credit losses. We also calculate …
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This paper investigates the role of credit and liquidity factors in explaining corporate CDS price changes during … conditions. Moreover, in the period prior to the recent “Great Recession” credit risk plays no role in explaining CDS price … changes. The dominance of liquidity effects casts serious doubts on the relevance of CDS price changes as an indicator of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065649