We show that commonality in liquidity is priced in both the cross-section and time-series of credit default swap (CDS) premia. Protection buyers earn a statistically significant and economically important discount for bearing the risk of individual CDS illiquidity co-moving with CDS market...

We show that the propensity of a bank to experience extreme comovements in its credit default swap premia together with the market is priced in the bank's default swap spread during the financial crisis. We measure a bank's CDS tail beta by estimating the upper tail dependence between its...