Are Risky Banks Disciplined by Large Corporate Depositors?
Abstract We analyze depositor discipline using auctions of unsecured money market deposits of firms to banks. In each auction, only the firm observes the banks and their interest rate bids. We observe that deposit interest rate bids increase with bank risk.
BJÖRN IMBIEROWICZ +2 more
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A market-consistent framework for the fair evaluation of insurance contracts under Solvency II [PDF]
The entry into force of the Solvency II regulatory regime is pushing insurance companies in engaging into market consistence evaluation of their balance sheet, mainly with reference to financial options and guarantees embedded in life with-profit funds ...
Casalini, R. +3 more
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From Climate Chat to Climate Shock: Non‐Linear Impacts of Transition Risk in Energy CDS Markets
ABSTRACT It is still unclear to what extent transition risks are being internalized by financial investors. In this paper, we provide a novel investigation of the impact of media‐based measures of transition risks on the credit risk of energy companies, as measured by their credit default swaps (CDS) indices. We include both European and North American
Emanuele Campiglio +3 more
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The dynamics of spillover effects during the european sovereign debt turmoil : [draft: october 29, 2012] [PDF]
In this paper we develop empirical measures for the strength of spillover effects. Modifying and extending the framework by Diebold and Yilmaz (2011), we quantify spillovers between sovereign credit markets and banks in the euro area.
Alter, Adrian, Beyer, Andreas
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Corporate credit default swap systematic factors
Abstract We examine a comprehensive set of systematic and firm‐specific determinants of the credit default swap (CDS), using a two‐step approach to explore the factor's effect on CDS spread changes. We show that systematic factors are important and account for the most changes in the CDS spreads (with average R 2 ${R}^{2}$ of 35%), while firm‐specific ...
Ka Kei Chan, Ming‐Tsung Lin, Qinye Lu
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Impact of Financial Crisis on the Profitability of Capital Structure Arbitrage in Australia
We evaluate the performance of a convergence style capital structure arbitrage trading strategy using Australian CDS spreads estimated by the Credit Grades model.
Jiri Svec Nicholas
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Correlation Structures of Correlated Binomial Models and Implied Default Distribution
We show how to analyze and interpret the correlation structures, the conditional expectation values and correlation coefficients of exchangeable Bernoulli random variables.
Aleksiejuk A. +16 more
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Moody's Correlated Binomial Default Distributions for Inhomogeneous Portfolios
This paper generalizes Moody's correlated binomial default distribution for homogeneous (exchangeable) credit portfolio, which is introduced by Witt, to the case of inhomogeneous portfolios. As inhomogeneous portfolios, we consider two cases.
Andersen L +20 more
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The determinants of credit default swap spreads in the presence of structural breaks and counterparty risk [PDF]
By investigating the determinants of CDS spreads on European contracts before and after the recent crisis we observe significant differences in the explanatory power of market and firm-specific variables.
Kapar, B., Olmo, J.
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Stressing rating criteria allowing for default clustering: the CPDO case [PDF]
After a brief review of the literature on rating arbitrage for corporate and structured nance, we introduce the standard criteria adopted by rating agencies to assess riskiness of Constant Proportion Debt Obligations (CPDO). Then, we propose a new rating
Pallavicini, Andrea, Torresetti, Roberto
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