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credit model to the time series of the issuer's CDS curve, we define a new corporate bond-specific measure for the valuation … difference. Our results show that, on average, risk premia implied in corporate bonds exceed those in CDS markets by a much …
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This paper investigates the determinants of the default risk premia embedded in the European credit default swap spreads. Using a modified version of the intertemporal capital asset pricing model, we show that default risk premia represent compensation for bearing exposure to systematic risk and...
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dynamics of CDS volatility spillover effects surrounding the UK's EU membership referendum commonly known as "Brexit". Using a … were drawn. We detect significant build-ups in CDS prices for all countries under study soon after the day relative to the … the underlined CDS. In particular, we find that UK, Italy and Spain are the "net volatility transmitters", while France …
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bonds, 2) credit default swaps (CDS), and 3) swap rates. We find a strong relationship between the markets. Specifically …
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We address an important yet unanswered question: What would be the economic determinants of the implied volatility during the zero lower bound periods? To answer this question, we examine time variations of the cap market implied volatility and investigate economic determinants on slopes and...
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analysis to the liquidity driven bond/CDS basis to examine the proportion of systematic and idiosyncratic determinants of …
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We infer conditional swap rate moments model independently from swaption cubes. Conditional volatility and skewness exhibit systematic variation across swap maturities and option expiries (conditional kurtosis less so), with conditional skewness sometimes changing sign. Conditional skewness...
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LIBOR, the predominant family of global short-term rate benchmarks for the past 40 years, ceases to exist in June 2023. Given the low volumes of interbank loans on which LIBOR had been based, the revelations that LIBOR had been manipulated, and the risks that countless LIBOR-dependent financial...
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Through large-scale asset purchases, widely known as quantitative easing (QE), central banks around the world have affected the supply of safe assets by buying quasi-safe bonds in exchange for truly safe reserves. We examine the pricing effects of the European Central Bank's bond purchases in...
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We study self- and cross-excitation of shocks in the Eurozone sovereign CDS market. We adopt a multivariate setting …-form formulae for CDS prices, and estimate the model by matching theoretical prices to their empirical counterparts. We find …
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