Following the 2008 financial crisis, regulation mandates the clearing of the CDS market through Central Clearing …-mediated contagion and its amplification. A novel spatial measure captures the covariance between members' CDS holdings and the CDS being … unwound. Key results show: Liquidations by constrained members lower the CCP's profits and make cds-spreads less informative …

Recent regulation mandating the clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) by a Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), has …

2007-2009. We show why tranching and leverage first raised asset prices and why CDS lowered them afterwards. This may seem … puzzling, since it implies that creating a derivative tranche in the securitization whose payoffs are identical to the CDS will … raise the underlying asset price while the CDS outside the securitization lowers it. The resolution of the puzzle is that …

-2009. We study the effect of leverage, tranching, securitization and CDS on asset prices in a general equilibrium model with … collateral. We show why tranching and leverage tend to raise asset prices and why CDS tend to lower them. This may seem puzzling …, since it implies that creating a derivative tranche in the securitization whose payoffs are identical to the CDS will raise …

default swaps (CDS). Our study focuses on the complete model space of plausible models covering most of the variables and … transparency and robustness for the empirical study at hand. Using a large data-set of CDS contracts we find that CDS price …

This paper studies the relative pricing of euro area sovereign CDS and the underlying government bonds. Our sample … comprises weekly CDS and bond spreads of ten euro area countries for the period from January 2006 to June 2010. We first compare … the determinants of CDS spreads and bond spreads and test how the crisis has affected market pricing. Then we analyse the …

. Spillovers are estimated recursively from a vector autoregressive model of daily CDS spread changes, with exogenous common … factors. We account for interdependencies between sovereign and bank CDS spreads and we derive generalised impulse response …

CDS spreads and facilitates cross-border financial-crisis spillovers. Risks spill over from risky periphery sovereigns to …