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This paper studies the risk management of central counterparties (CCPs) using a granular transaction-level dataset. We test whether margining practices are sufficient relative to portfolio risk and whether CCPs reduce margin requirements in a ‟race-to-the-bottom." We find that, for some...
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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 … its counterparties: 1) correlation across and within derivative classes (i.e., systematic risk), 2) collateralization of …
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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 … its counterparties: 1) correlation across and within derivative classes (i.e., systematic risk), 2) collateralization of …
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This paper investigates the factors influencing banks' decision to engage in advanced risk management, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. In recent decades, credit risk management in banks has become highly sophisticated and banks have become more active and advanced in the...
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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A counterparty credit limit (CCL) is a limit imposed by a financial institution to cap its maximum possible exposure to a specified counterparty. Although CCLs are designed to help institutions mitigate counterparty risk by selective diversification of their exposures, their implementation...
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This paper deals with stress tests for credit risk and shows how exploiting the discretion when setting up and implementing a model can drive the results of a quantitative stress test for default probabilities. For this purpose, we employ several variations of a CreditPortfolioView-style model...
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