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the bankruptcy code in Germany that effectively removes their potential impact on CDS firms. Using a unique dataset on …
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bankruptcy as a verifiable event that occurs whenever the agent makes a per period loss. This leads to less stringent truth …
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We empirically analyse the appropriateness of indexing emerging market sovereign debt to US real interest rates. We find that policy-induced exogenous increases in US rates raise default risk in emerging market economies, as hypothesised in the theoretical literature. However, we also find...
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A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in … entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy … forgiving personal bankruptcy law are less relevant for wealthy potential entrepreneurs who still risk losing their wealth, but …
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In general, banks play a growth-enhancing role for the real economy. However, distorted incentives for banks, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions, leading to suboptimal real economic outcomes. A rules-based...
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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