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) trading and liquidity. We find strong intraday variations in index CDS trading activities and liquidity. Unlike the U … findings improve our understanding of the trading costs and liquidity in the over-the-counter derivatives market …
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I develop a model with two assets in which the hedging activity of derivatives dealers, interacting with market illiquidity, distorts the covariance structure of the market. I apply the model to hedging of counter party risk, and find strong support for the model's key predictions. Using...
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In this paper, we present a novel method to extract the risk-neutral probability of default from American put option prices. Under the assumptions of Carr and Wu (2011), we derive a closed form expression for American put options from which the probability of default can be inferred. Our...
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We discuss a simple, exactly solvable model of stochastic stock dynamics that incorporates regime switching between healthy and distressed regimes. Using this model, which is analytically tractable, we discuss a way of extracting expected returns for stocks from realized CDS spreads,...
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years before and during the financial crisis 2008. We find significant differences in prices and provided liquidity …
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This paper analyses the role of liquidity in the price discovery process. Specifically, it focuses on the credit …
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market implied liquidity, linking the pricing under stochastic volatility with the Conic Finance theory of two prices. As a … motivating example, we construct for the first time the market implied liquidity surface under stochastic volatility …
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spreads, and corporate bond liquidity spreads in a unified no-arbitrage framework. Four economic factors, monetary conditions …. During the pre-crisis period, volatility shocks decrease Treasury yields and widen both credit spreads and liquidity spreads … and real output become significant as well. Ignoring the liquidity component of corporate yield spreads is shown to lead …
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This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. It documents a rich and complex interaction between the underlying model...
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We estimate probabilities of bankruptcy for 5,784 industrial firms in the period 1988-2002 in a model where common equity is viewed as a down-and-out barrier option on the firm's assets. Asset values and volatilities as well as firm-specific bankruptcy barriers are simultaneously backed out from...
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