clearinghouse that acts as a seller to every buyer and a buyer to every seller. Proponents of central clearing argue that this … benefits of central clearing are manifest, the downsides are less obvious; clearinghouses concentrate risk and pose enormous … access to central bank credit is crucial, particularly when central clearing of volatile CDSs is required …

unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper seeks to understand the implications of …

We decompose aggregate consumption by modelling both savers and their links to collateral constrained borrowers through … proportion to the riskiness of assets, the demand for loans, the asset price and the quantity of housing collateral. We show that …