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Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably, central banks focus on risks that have systemic implications, it is crucial to develop ways to measure these risks. The difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate...
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We study a simple static economy with collateralized loan contracts and an incomplete asset market. We study whether economic forces operate to keep asset price equal to fundamentals in this economy. We find that asset prices may be higher than the valuation of any agent in the economy, i.e.,...
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collateral agreement. We then verify the effect of the collateral agreement on the derivative transaction by using the …, and enables us to observe the influence of the collateral agreement on these. Our numerical results also verify how the … market equilibriums for the derivatives change according to the change of the collateral amount through the demand …
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collateral to support arbitrage trades. We show that with volatile asset demands, arbitrage becomes risky. With information … frictions, a looser collateral policy might render the economy more vulnerable to extremely large demand shocks, while a tighter … collateral constraint helps maintain the stability at the cost of market liquidity supply …
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The paper examines three equity-based structural models to study the nonlinear relationship between equity and credit default swap (CDS) prices. These models differ in the specification of the default barrier. With cross-firm CDS premia and equity information, we are able to estimate and compare...
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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the default probability of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the option-implied default probability. We introduce a simple...
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This paper examines the causal effect of index creation on security prices in related markets. Using a novel identification strategy, I document persistent treatment effects attributable to index inclusion. Variation in the difference between bond and credit default swap (CDS) spreads, known as...
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