This paper provides a discussion about some recent issues related to the transfer of credit risk (CRT) from the perspective of global liquidity. The CRT market is enormously growing and exhibits major structural shifts in terms of buyers and sellers of protection. I try to address these issues...

Granger causality (GC) tests are widely used when it comes to empirically address the dynamic relationship between speculative activities and pricing on commodity markets. However, the sheer number of studies and their heterogeneity makes it extremely difficult – if not impossible – to...

Buyers of a credit default swap (CDS) are not only exposed to the credit risk of the underlying reference entity, but also to the default risk of the seller of the swap. The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the recent implementation of central counterparty clearing (CCP) on...