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amounts, in foreign currency and to foreign banks. Central bank cooperation took the form of a swap network, and amounted to …, the swap network should not be made permanent and given an institutional basis to provide international lending of last … International Economics, concludes in favour of making the swap network permanent, while William Dudley, President of the Federal …
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banks. These central banks had the capacity to use these swap facilities to provide dollar liquidity to institutions in … their jurisdictions. This paper presents the developments in the dollar swap facilities through the end of 2009. The … research, as well as more descriptive accounts, suggests that the dollar swap lines among central banks were effective at …
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Since the financial crisis, attention has focused on central counterparties (CCPs) as a solution to systemic risk for a variety of financial markets, ranging from repurchase agreements and options to swaps. However, internationally accepted standards and the academic literature have left...
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Default probabilities (PDs) and correlations play a crucial role in the New Basel Capital Accord. In commercial credit risk models they are an important constituent. Yet, modeling and estimation of PDs and correlations is still under active discussion. We show how the Basel II one factor model...
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This paper presents an analytical and empirical analysis of a parsimonious model framework that accounts for a dependence of bond and bank loan recoveries on systematic risk. We extend the single risk factor model by assuming that the recovery rates also depend on this risk factor and follow a...
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The situation of a limited availability of historical data is frequently encountered in portfolio risk estimation, especially in credit risk estimation. This makes it, for example, difficult to find temporal structures with statistical significance in the data on the single asset level. By...
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"Arbitrage CDOs" have recorded an explosive growth during the years before the outbreak of the financial crisis. In the present paper we discuss potential sources of such arbitrage opportunities, in particular arbitrage gains due to mispricing. For this purpose we examine the risk profiles of...
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We explore the relationship between CDS premia and bond asset swap spreads on the same reference entity. As Duffie …
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The trading of securities on multiple markets raises the question of each market's share in the discovery of the informationally efficient price. We exploit salient distributional features of multivariate financial price processes to uniquely determine these contributions. Thereby we resolve the...
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This paper analyzes the risk properties of typical asset-backed securities (ABS), like CDOs or MBS, relying on a model with both macroeconomic and idiosyncratic components. The examined properties include expected loss, loss given default, and macro factor dependencies. Using a two-dimensional...
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