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The asset value of government has traditionally been seen as the accounting value of public assets. We develop a detailed financial economics view on sovereign asset values using market measures to arrive at implied sovereign asset values. We establish definition and dependencies within the...
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This study analyzes the motives for and consequences of funds' credit default swap (CDS) investments using mutual funds …
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, initial capital, position limits, and other trading constraints that credit swap investors often face in practice. The multi … portfolios. In particular, we find that credit swap investment constraints can have a significant impact on optimal portfolios …
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Using a comprehensive dataset of mutual funds' quarterly holdings of credit default swap (CDS) contracts during 2007 …
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We undertake a systematic study of the univariate and multivariate properties of CDS spreads using the CDS spread time series of CDX Investment Grade index constituents from 2005 to 2009. We find that CDS spread returns appear to be stationary and exhibit positive autocorrelations,...
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The impact of a stress scenario of default events on the loss distribution of a credit portfolio can be assessed by determining the loss distribution conditional on these events. While it is conceptually easy to estimate loss distributions conditional on default events by means of Monte Carlo...
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This paper deals with stress tests for credit risk and shows how exploiting the discretion when setting up and implementing a model can drive the results of a quantitative stress test for default probabilities. For this purpose, we employ several variations of a CreditPortfolioView-style model...
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