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Managed synthetic CDOs permit the dynamic substitution of credits in the reference portfolio. The expectation of investors in is that a skilled manager should be able to identify deteriorating credits before they experience a credit event and should therefore be able to remove the credit from...
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Implicit in interest rate derivatives are Arrow-Debreu prices (or state price densities, SPDs) that contain fundamental information for risk and portfolio management in interest rate markets. To extract such information from interest rate derivatives, we propose a non-parametric method to...
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original trading relationships. Third, we apply our framework to a unique and comprehensive transaction-level dataset on OTC …
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We develop a model to study the impacts of speculative position limits in commodity futures market. In the spirit of … Dodd-Frank Act, regulators believe that position limit on speculators would dampen futures price volatility and prevent … market manipulation. We show that this is not true due to two unintended consequences of this trading rule. First, the …
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liquid following massive dealer-bank exit from CDS trading business post the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, while bond … liquidity has significantly improved due to advances in corporate bond electronic trading …
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Through the lens of market participants' objective to minimize counterparty risk, we provide an explanation for the reluctance to clear derivative trades in the absence of a central clearing obligation. We develop a comprehensive understanding of the benefits and potential pitfalls with respect...
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This article presents a generic model for pricing financial derivatives subject to counterparty credit risk. Both unilateral and bilateral types of credit risks are considered. Our study shows that credit risk should be modeled as American style options in most cases, which require a backward...
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In this thesis I develop a model for describing the dynamic behavior of Credit Migration Matrices under a Point-in-time Rating Philosophy. Characteristics of the yearly Migration Matrices following a Point-in-Time Philosophy are presented. Through the introduction of the concept of Rating...
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We examine how the notional value of futures contracts predicts the cross-section of returns within the major asset … classes tracking a large number of futures contracts. We find that low notional value contracts outperform high notional value …
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essentially trading labor with future goods, it is inevitable that risk-free bonds have lower interest rate than ideal risk …
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