Using granular data on both debt and credit default swaps (CDS) exposures by French investors on non-financial corporations (NFC) and euro area banks on French NFCs, we study how CDS reallocate investors' exposure to credit risk. To guide our investigation, we propose a methodology to...

This project presents the analytical framework for macroprudential policy (AFMaP) developed at the Financial Stability Directorate of the Banque de France that could be used to calibrate macroprudential instruments and to provide analytical support to macroprudential policy decision making. In...