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Bilateral derivatives valuation is subject to counterparty credit risk (CCR) in that a counterparty could jump to default or its credit spread could vary over time. In the nomenclature of risk management, the former is called CCR exposure and the later leads to credit valuation adjustment (CVA)....
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Many observers have argued that credit default swaps contributed significantly to the credit crisis. Of particular concern to these observers are that credit default swaps trade in the largely unregulated over-the-counter market as bilateral contracts involving counter-party risk and that they...
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This paper presents a new model for pricing OTC derivatives subject to collateralization. It allows for collateral posting adhering to bankruptcy laws. As such, the model can back out the market price of a collateralized contract. This framework is very useful for valuing outstanding...
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I construct a model of over-the-counter (OTC) trading to study equilibrium allocation properties under bilateral clearing (BC) and central counterparty (CCP) clearing of OTC derivatives. I show how CCP mutualizes individual counterparty exposures and prevents massive equilibrium defaults. I...
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derivative data in growth estimates. Beyond the most recent Wacthel and Rousseau (2010) evidence which documents the interruption … derivative positively or insignificantly with a much smaller effect in magnitude. At the same time the impact of the crisis is …
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collateral agreement. We then verify the effect of the collateral agreement on the derivative transaction by using the … derivative contracts by agent's utility maximizations. This leads the equilibrium volumes and prices for the derivative contracts …
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In this paper, we show both theoretically and empirically that the size of over-the-counter (OTC) markets can be reduced without affecting individual net positions. First, we find that the networked nature of these markets generates an excess of notional obligations between the aggregate gross...
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principle initiated by Buhlmann (1980). The derivative markets in our model are over-the-counter (OTC) markets and have … pricing rule in the point of the sensitivity of derivative prices …
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Since the push towards central clearing in derivatives markets after the global financial crisis, an open question has been how the development has affected competition. This paper models imperfect competition between dealers in derivatives markets. Two risk-neutral dealers offer derivatives to...
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institutions and mitigate the systemic risk associated with derivative trading, especially trading in credit derivatives such as … value - on a frequent basis. The notional value of credit derivatives provides a gauge of the maximum amount the derivative … of a derivative's market value (it is unlikely that each contract in the portfolio would have to be settled for the full …
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