In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structural evolution of two of the most important over-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the German large credit register between 2002 and...

Svenja Hager aims at pricing non-standard illiquid portfolio credit derivatives which are related to standard CDO tranches with the same underlying portfolio of obligors. Instead of assuming a homogeneous dependence structure between the default times of different obligors, as it is assumed in...

Intro -- Titelseite -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Die Autoren -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- 1 Die Evolution des CDS-Marktes -- 1.1 Credit Default Swaps (CDS) als Antwort auf die Savings & Loan-Krise in den USA -- 1.2 Der CDS-Markt wird erwachsen: Die Etablierung der 2003er-Definitionen und...