CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

Credit risk pricing is perhaps an understudied topic in comparisons to its profound impact on the world’s financial markets and economies. This study uses established price discovery techniques to develop a method of price discovery for credit risk in three financial markets: equity, debt, and credit derivative. This chapter is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of South-Eastern European countries—Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Turkey—during the recent financial crisis. In this study, the authors evaluate the dynamics of fiscal risk or country risk measured by sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS), liquidity risk measured bond markets, and stock markets for the monthly based September 2008 – February 2011 period. The study examines monthly data observing 38 months and 8 countries. A panel vector autoregression model is proposed for changes in Long-Term Interest Rate (LTIR), changes in CDS spreads (CDS), and changes in stock index. In conclusion, CDS markets and stock markets are more significant than bond markets in explaining the post-crisis relationship among developing South-Eastern European countries. The analysis displays that long-term monetary policy did not affect CDS premium and stock index level. A strong relationship is found between the CDS spread and stock market. During financial crisis and after the crisis, the correlations among CDS, stock, and bond markets are collapsed by panicked investors’ rapid movement and wild speculators. This risk perception can explain the difference between the finance theory and practices in the market.

Hazardous Hedging: The (Unacknowledged) Risks of Hedging with Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps (CDS): Theory Emerging into Practice (Initiated by Reserve Bank of India)

Understanding Decreasing CDS Curves

Chapter 6 - Credit Default Swaps

The credit derivatives market has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. As such, there is a growing interest in tools for pricing the most prominent credit derivative, the credit default swap. In this paper, we present several artificial neural networks that predict real-world credit default swap prices. In addition to the input parameters used by analytical pricing strategies, these networks explore the use of historic credit default swap prices and equity prices. It was found that the inclusion of historic parameters has increased the accuracy of the network's prediction of credit default swap prices. 2010 IEEE.

2 - The credit derivatives market

최근(2008년) 국제금융위기를 초래한 여러 변수들 중, 사회적인 소득불균형와 금융위기에 대한 대응책의 미흡 등의 문제들을 포함한 거시경제변수들 중, 특히 2가지 요인들에 주목할 필요가 있다. 즉, 2000년 이후부터 지속되어 온, 국제적 무역 불균형과 통화정책 상의 오류라는 요인들이다. 특히 후자의 경우, 2000년대 초반부터 지속된 경제의 불확실성 확대가 연방중앙은행이 저금리정책을 유지하게 된 주된 요인이 되었으며, 이로 인한 자본시장의 과도한 유동성이 시장참여자들로 하여금 시중 금리이상의 수익률을 추구하는 금융상품을 찾기에 비정상적 노력을 기울이도록 유도하였다. 본 논문에서는 상기 거시경제적인 변수와 관련하여, 국제금융위기의 직접적이고 미시적인 원인으로 간주되고 있는 장외파생상품에 대한 분석과 실증적 연구를 수행하였다. 금융위기 상황 이전의 장외파생상품들에 대한 과도한 투자열기, 특히, 신용부도스왑(Credit Default Swap, CDS)의 국제 자본시장에서의 과열된 매매가 최근의 국제금융위기를 초래한 직접적인 원인이 되었다고 판단되기 때문이다. 본 논문의 기여점으로는 자본선진국들에서는 CDS의 스프레드(프리미엄)에 대한 결정요인들에 대한 연구가 지속적으로 이루어 졌으나, 국내 기업들에 대한 결정요인에 대한 연구는 상대적으로 미약하였다는 점이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구의 방법론으로서 산업효과를 고려한 다중회귀식을 이용한 결정요인들에 대한 유의성 검정이며, 설명변수들 중에서, 국고채(만기 3년) 수익률, 시가-장부가 비율, 그리고 기업규모가 국내 기업들의 CDS 스프레드 의 유의한 결정요인이었다. 첫 장에서는 최근의 국제금융위기관련, 그에 대한 원인분석을 서술하였으며, 둘째 장에서 부채담보부증권과 신용부도스왑에 대한 구체적 개념을 설명하였다. 다음으로 국내 기업들 중, 국제적으로 CDS 스프레드가 거래되는 표본기업들을 대상으로 결정요인 분석을 실증적으로 수행하였다. 마지막 장의 결론 부분에서는 요약과 향후 연구에 대한 내용을 서술, 제시하였다. Among several macroeconomic missteps blamed for the recent global financial crisis including the social problems of income distribution and the lack of proper financial remedies, two of them have received particular attention: the global BOP(Balance of Payment) imbalance and the misguided monetary policy. Such BOP imbalance was blamed for massive foreign exchange investment flows from Asia into the U.S., triggering the financial and real estate bubble in America. The latter refers to the excessively loose monetary policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which pushed financial institutions and households into reckless investment behavior in search of higher returns. Given the abuse of certain innovative financial techniques and new investment instruments that have been created in recent decades, both collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps (CDS) enjoyed a symbiotic and toxic relationship prior to the financial crisis This paper is organized as follows: The first section analyzes the real causes of the recent financial crisis. The second details the role of CDOs and CDS. Then, to identify key determinants of the CDS spreads in an emerging capital market, the sample data of major Korean firms' CDS spreads are used to estimate the risk premium by utilizing the multiple regression analysis. The empirical test result indicates that Korean 3-year treasury bond rate(TYIELD), market to book value ratio(MV/BV), and assets size(INASSETS) are shown to demonstrate statistically significant influences on the changes of the CDS premium for sample firms.

Credit derivatives has been the fastest growing segment of the global over-the-counter derivatives markets since credit derivatives birth in the early 1990s. A credit derivative refers to any one of various instruments and techniques designed to separate and then transfer the credit risk of the derlying loan. It is a securitized derivative whereby the credit risk is ransferred to an entity other than the lender. However, due to the complexity of credit derivatives moral hazard problems and information asymmetry issues may arise. Nevertheless the evolution of credit derivatives such as credit derivatives index increases the quality of price discovery and adds transparency to the credit markets. The price discovery mechanism is the process of determining the price of an asset in the marketplace through the interactions of available information including one market and other related markets. In adynamic market, the price discovery takes place continuously. The price will sometimes fall below the average and sometimes exceed the average as a result of the noise due to uncertainties. So usually price discovery accepted an important research topic in finance helps find the exact price for an asset. This paper empirically examine whether the Eurasian credit derivatives markets is properly performing its economic function of price discovery by analyzing the prices between the European credit derivatives market and the Asian credit derivatives, for the period from October 1, 2010 to April 18, 2012 using daily data. Specifically, the study addresses three issues: (1) the European credit derivatives market has predictive power for the Asian credit derivatives market or vise versa; (2) if a variable have predictive power, how long does the variable in response to the various shocks; (3) how big does the proportion of the movements in a sequence due to its own shocks impacts to the other variable. The analysis employs the vector-autoregression, Granger causality, impulse response function and variance decomposition using daily returns on both Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe Index and Markit iTraxx SovX Asia Pacific Index . Tools employed by VAR analysis-Granger causality, impulse response function and variance decomposition-can be helpful in understanding the interrelationships among economic vriables. Granger causality actually measures whether current and past values help to forecast future values. So, a variable y is said to be Granger-caused by other variable x if x helps in the prediction of y. A shock to the i-th variable not only directly affects the i-th variable but is also transmitted to all of the other endogenous variables through the dynamic (lag) structure of the VAR. An impulse response function traces the effect of a one-time shock to one of the innovations on current and future values of the endogenous variables. While impulse response functions trace the effects of a shock to one endogenous variable on to the other variables in the VAR, variance decomposition separates the variation in an endogenous variable into the component shocks to the VAR. Thus, the variance decomposition provides information about the relative importance of each random innovation in affecting the variables in the VAR. So, the variance decomposition tells us the proportion of the movements in a sequence due to its own shocks versus shocks to the other variable. The findings in this paper indicate that the Europe Index return has predictive power for the Asia Index return from Granger causality test. But the Asia Index return don't has predictive power for the Europe Index return. This results makes clear that there is a one-way relationship in which the European credit derivatives market affects the Asian credit derivatives market.

This study aims to investigate the existence of contagion between liquid and illiquid assets in the credit default swap (CDS) market around the recent financial crisis. The authors perform analyses based on vector autoregression model and the dynamic conditional correlation model. The estimation of vector autoregression models reveals that changes in liquid CDS (LCDS) spreads lead to changes in illiquid CDS spreads at least one week ahead during the financial crisis period, whereas the leading direction is reversed during the post-crisis period. Moreover, the results are robust after controlling for structural variables which are proven as determinants of CDS spreads and are empirically supported. This study interprets that information was incorporated first into the LCDSs because of the flight-to-liquidity during the recent crisis period but there is a default contagion effect by reflecting illiquidity-induced credit risk after the crisis. Finally, the dynamic conditional correlation analysis also confirms the main results.

Information efficiency of the U.S. credit default swap market: Evidence from earnings surprises

The global financial crisis (GFC) has drawn attention to the increased risk taking of financial institutions, in particular risk taking by banks. Some observers have also suggested that credit default swaps (CDS) have not only contributed to the GFC but to some extent have also exacerbated it. Moreover, it would seem that in many cases the main motivation for banks in using CDS is for trading purposes (Fitch Ratings, 2007, 2010). Given that banks are among the most important sources of finance, and are fraught with extensive public exposure through deposits, risk taking in banks is an important consideration for both regulators and the general public. This paper explores an agency theoretic perspective in analysing the potential motivations for risk taking vs. risk aversion decisions within banks. The paper asserts that the use of CDS for speculative/trading purpose indicates a risk taking motive, whereas the use of CDS for hedging purposes suggests that the overriding motivation is risk aversion. We argue that these dichotomous themes can explain banking strategy in the use of CDS and in turn can also explain the rationale for the phenomenal growth in CDS up until the onset of the GFC.

We use Google internet search volumes to measure households’ pessimism about overall market-wide credit health in the economy and show that this “household default sentiment” is positively correlated with the credit default swap (CDS) spread level in the market. However, while household default sentiment might drive the cost of credit to some degree, either directly or indirectly through its effect on the stock market, we find the stock market’s opinion about the credit risk in the economy (default probabilities backed out from structural models) to be much more important in explaining credit spreads. The rather weak link between household sentiment and CDS spreads, meanwhile, is consistent with the almost complete absence of retail investors (households) in the institutional investor-dominated credit derivatives market. The results are essentially the same, whether we look at market-wide CDS indexes or single-name CDS contracts, and whether we exclude the financial crisis or not.

This chapter explores functional equivalents to guarantees within the unfunded credit protection framework, focusing on instruments such as credit risk insurance and risk participations. It demonstrates how regulators, particularly in the UK and EU, recognize these instruments as equivalent to guarantees when they meet specific operational criteria. Through historical and legislative evidence, the chapter establishes regulatory acceptance of these instruments, tracing their evolution from the Basel Accords to their implementation in the EU and UK. It analyses challenges like reconciling insurance-specific exclusions with guarantee-based eligibility requirements, highlighting the need for tailored regulatory approaches. The chapter also explores the use and recognition of credit derivatives and credit default swaps (CDSs). The chapter underscores the importance of bridging legal classifications and practical applications to ensure compliance and functionality in the evolving financial landscape.

Why and How Do Banks Lay Off Credit Risk? The Choice between Retention, Loan Sales and Credit Default Swaps