Kaushik, Rahul; Battiston, Stefano - Department of Management, Technology and Economics …
\begin{abstract} We analyse time series of CDS spreads for a set of major US and European institutions on a period overlapping the recent financial crisis. We extend the existing methodology of \emph{$\varepsilon$-drawdowns} to the one of \emph{joint $\varepsilon$-drawups}, in order to estimate...