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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of credit information sharing on bank-specific stock price crash risk. Using a sample of 1,402 listed-banks in 55 countries for the period 2005-2013, we show that credit information sharing through public credit registries is negatively associated...
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One of the lessons to be learned from the financial crisis is that the mechanics of initial margins and collateral haircuts, applied to manage counterparty credit risk and market risk out of an outstanding position in derivatives, may cause significant perverse effects on the financial system by...
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The recent Euro area crisis, which has originally been driven mainly by macroeconomic factors, has had a strong impact also on financial markets leading internationally to what is referred as contagion, that is co-movements among asset prices which have been excessive respect to fundamentals....
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Are yields of long-maturity bonds distorted by demand pressure of clientele investors, regulatory effects, or default, flight-to-safety or liquidity premiums? Using data on German nominal bonds between 2005 and 2015, we study the differential pricing and liquidity of short and long maturity...
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There is a general acceptance of the fact that a significant direct relationship between financial markets and macroeconomic variables exists, especially by considering the assertion that developed financial markets correspond to high GDP levels. This paper provides an investigation of the...
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(CDS) and bond spreads in the post Lehman Brothers period by focusing on both short and long run relations. Equity and cost … of funding are also considered in the study. On the one hand, the CDS market is able to forecast the bond market in 11 … cases out of 15, while equity is a useful predictor of the CDS market in 8 cases out of 15. Evidence of a bidirectional …
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usually rather unstable due to the volatility of CDS spreads. Since credit derivatives on single names are not very liquid … CDSs and CDS indices, and we also evaluate the level of basis risk still remaining under the hedge. We address several …
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adjustment (CVA) might become increasingly difficult should the long-standing correlation between singlename and index CDS …
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) and Credit Default Swaps (CDS). The simultaneous accumulation of RMBS assets on US banks' balance sheets and also large … counterparty exposures from CDS positions characterized the $2 trillion Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) market. The latter … to the regulator at the time, we investigate how a CDS negative carry trade combined with incentives provided by Basel II …
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This paper develops a two-country multi-frictional model where the freeze on liquidity access to commercial banks in one country raises unemployment rates via credit rationing in both countries. The expenditure-switching channel, whereby asymmetric monetary shocks traditionally lead to negative...
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