Using Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on sovereign bonds, we investigate whether US sovereign default risk is a greater driving factor of domestic interbank funding risk than domestic sovereign default risk across the five Libor counties including Canada and Australia. We use equivalent-country...

The CDS-bond basis quantifies the difference in risk premia between credit default swap (CDS) and bond markets. It is hard to measure at the individual firm level given substantial missing-value problems (30%-100%) in either or both markets, even for highly liquid blue-chip financial firms. We...

Purpose - Having defined liquidity, the aim is to assess the predictive capacity of its representative variables, so that economic fluctuations may be better understood. Design/methodology/approach - Conceptual variables that are representative of liquidity will be used to formulate the...