Du, Wenxin; Gadgil, Salil; Gordy, Michael B.; Vega, Clara - 2016
trade repository data on single-name credit default swap (CDS) transactions. We find that counterparty risk has a modest … impact on the pricing of CDS contracts, but a large impact on the choice of counterparties. We show that market participants … of central clearing on CDS pricing. Contrary to the previous literature, but consistent with our main findings on pricing …