Gündüz, Yalin; Nasev, Julia; Trapp, Monika - 2013
In this paper we show that informational and real frictions in CDS markets strongly affect CDS premia. We derive this … main finding using a proprietary set of individual CDS transactions cleared by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation …. We first show that CDS traders adjust the CDS premium in response to the observed order flow. Buy orders lead to an …