"Credit Derivatives are financial contracts that transfer credit risk--the risk that a debtor will not repay a loan--between parties. Credit Derivative Strategies describes for professional investors current ways of participating in this rapidly expanding market, including how to select credit...

Using data on U.S. Treasury dealer positions from 1990 to 2006, we find evidence of a significant role for dealers in the intertemporal intermediation of new Treasury security supply. Dealers regularly take into inventory a large share of Treasury issuance so that dealer positions increase...

Credit derivatives are the latest in a series of innovations that have had a significant impact on credit markets. Using a micro data set of individual corporate loans, this paper explores whether use of credit derivatives is associated with an increase in bank credit supply. We find evidence...