The 21st century witnessed an extraordinary boom in the CDS market. The increased popularity of CDS instruments as investment and hedging vehicles has seen a parallel development in the CDS research literature. This paper exploits the results of a search on title textual analysis to explore...

Recent discussions on the volatility of agricultural prices have been drawing on factors as low short term elasticities of supply and demand, climatic risk, market uncertainty, central banks monetary policies, trade barriers, biofuel development and, finally, speculation. Much debate has aroused...

Despite a large literature studying the link between population aging and financial market returns and some limited studies on the market implications of the pension reform, little has been done to quantify the actuarial impact of an asset allocation shift by pension funds. The latter has become...

Researchers have recently studied the interactions between corporate and government bond issuances within many countries. Some conclude that government bonds compete with private bond issuances, while others maintain that government bonds provide valuable reference entities that improve the...

In this study, I analyze the effect of central clearing on market liquidity in the CDS market. This study extends existing literature by using semi-parametric and non-parametric regression discontinuity designs (RDD) in order to isolate the effect of central clearing on measures of market...

We study the effect of central clearing on netting efficiency in the CDS market. We examine the development of position data and netting efficiency using aggregate data from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Our main finding is that gross outstanding positions in cleared...

This paper uses granular bond portfolio data to study how banking systems across the European Union (EU) adjust their asset holdings in response to regulatory solvency shocks. We also study the impact of these shocks at financial intermediaries on the prices of bonds in their portfolio. Despite...

This paper provides an overview of the strategic and operational issues as well as institutional challenges, related to the implementation of the Sovereign Asset and Liability Management (SALM) approach. Application of an SALM framework allows the authorities to identify and monitor sovereign...

This paper documents the pricing of liquidity and identifies its drivers in the four main segments of the interbank and exchange credit bond markets in China. First, we find that liquidity effects are priced in credit bond yield spreads, and differ significantly across these four segments....

In China, a large proportion of companies are state owned, and this factor is a likely important driver of assets prices. In this paper, a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) benchmark/factor is constructed along with the market factor and common benchmarks used in the literature to explain returns –...