Recent regulation mandating the clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) by a Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), has …

Following the 2008 financial crisis, regulation mandates the clearing of the CDS market through Central Clearing …

reluctance to clear derivative trades in the absence of a central clearing obligation. We develop a comprehensive understanding … moving from a bilateral to a clearing architecture for derivative markets. Previous studies suggest that central clearing is … beneficial for single market participants in the presence of a sufficiently large number of clearing members. We show that three …

reluctance to clear derivative trades in the absence of a central clearing obligation. We develop a comprehensive understanding … moving from a bilateral to a clearing architecture for derivative markets. Previous studies suggest that central clearing is … beneficial for single market participants in the presence of a sufficiently large number of clearing members. We show that three …

We consider financial networks where agents are linked to each other with financial contracts. A centralized clearing … lattice structure, leading to the existence of a least and a greatest clearing payment matrix. Previous research has shown how … decentralized clearing selects the least clearing payment matrix. We present a centralized approach towards clearing in order to …

Bilateral financial contracts typically require an assessment of counterparty risk. Central clearing of these financial … and to reveal information about such risk. When considering this trade-off, participants would choose central clearing if … information acquisition is incentive compatible. If it is not, they may prefer bilateral clearing, when this choice prevents …

present a convenient representation of bankruptcy rules. A clearing payment matrix is a payment matrix consistent with the … prevailing bankruptcy rules that satisfies limited liability and priority of creditors. Both clearing payment matrices and the … decentralized clearing processes and show the convergence of any such process in finitely many steps to the least clearing payment …

We study bankruptcy problems in financial networks in the presence of general bankruptcy laws. The set of clearing … payment matrices is shown to be a lattice, which guarantees the existence of a greatest and a least clearing payment …. Multiplicity of clearing payment matrices is both a theoretical and a practical concern. We present a new condition for uniqueness …