Regulatory changes have motivated the development of a variety of solutions for the clearing of interest rate swaps. Margin payments associated with clearing lead to modifications in cash flows which result in differences in the valuation between cleared and non-cleared swaps. We propose a...

We undertake a systematic study of the univariate and multivariate properties of CDS spreads using the CDS spread time series of CDX Investment Grade index constituents from 2005 to 2009. We find that CDS spread returns appear to be stationary and exhibit positive autocorrelations,...

Starting from the requirement that risk measures of financial portfolios should be based on their losses, not their gains, we define the notion of loss-based risk measure and study the properties of this class of risk measures. We characterize loss-based risk measures by a representation theorem...