This paper focuses on the many extreme credit default swap spread movements observed during the recent credit crisis and on how the tails of the spread (and price) change distribution significantly differ from those of the normal distribution even for diversified credit derivatives portfolios....

This p aper explores the interaction between a credit crunch and the maturity of government debt, focusing on its impacts on an economy with heterogeneous house holds. We find that an increase in debt maturity helps softening the economicslump that follows a credit crisis. We show that,...

Given the economy's complex behavior and sudden transitions as evidenced in the 2007-08 crisis, agent-based models are widely considered a promising alternative to current macroeconomic practice dominated by DSGE models. Their failure is commonly interpreted as a failure to incorporate...

In a market-based financial system, banking and capital market developments are inseparable, and funding conditions are closely tied to fluctuations in the leverage of market-based financial intermediaries. Offering a window on liquidity, the balance sheet growth of broker-dealers provides a...

This paper explores the interaction between a credit crunch and the maturity of government debt, focusing on its impacts on an economy with heterogeneous households. We find that an increase in debt maturity helps softening the economic slump that follows a credit crisis. We show that,...

In the analysis of the credit crisis of 2007-2010 a clear distinction should be made between (i) the initial shock; (ii) the propagation and amplification of the initial shock to the systemic crisis of the financial markets; and (iii) the transmission of the credit crisis to the real economic...