New regulations promote the role of Central Counter-Parties (CCPs) as insurers of counterparty risk to stabilize derivative markets. Whereas the US favors monopolistic CCPs, the EU promotes the coexistence of several CCPs for a given asset class. In this paper, we shed light on the competition...

Does derivative market regulation affect real economic outcomes? We investigate this question in the setting of the central counterparty (CCP) clearing reform on the corporate credit default swap (CDS) market. Exploiting the staggered introduction of CCP clearing to CDS contracts -- an insurance...

In this article we quantify the loss a financial institution can expect due to central counterparty (CCP) membership. Such a loss can be incurred whenever the CCP has insufficient funds to unwind the portfolio of a defaulting clearing member. This does not necessarily require the default of the...