The Influence of Equity Market Sentiment on Credit Default Swap Markets: Evidence from Wavelet Quantile Regression

Intra-Industry Credit Contagion Evidence from the Credit Default Swap Market and the Stock Market

By exploiting a comprehensive dataset of Credit Default Swaps (CDS), we investigate the intra-industry credit contagion effect in the context of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chapter 7 liquidation, and other credit events defined by extreme jumps in the CDS spread. Our analysis suggests the following findings: First, the credit contagion effect dominates the competitive effect surrounding Chapter 11 r...

Transparency in Credit Default Swap Markets

We provide an inventory of existing forms of transparency in CDS markets and discuss methods that may be used to increase transparency as well as their benefits and costs. In particular, we attempt to identify to whom such benefits and costs accrue (broker-dealers, end users, etc). We argue that increased market transparency has a cost, which must be weighed against its benefits in terms of mar...

Counterparty credit risk and the credit default swap market

Counterparty credit risk has become one of the highest-profile risks facing participants in the financial markets. Despite this, relatively little is known about how counterparty credit risk is actually priced. We examine this issue using an extensive proprietary data set of contemporaneous CDS transaction prices and quotes by 14 different CDS dealers selling credit protection on the same under...

The complete picture of Credit Default Swap spreads - a Quantile Regression approach

We study the determinants of Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads through quantile regressions. In addition to traditional variables, the results indicate that CDS spreads are also determined by illiquidity costs. However, contrary to stocks or bonds, we show that CDS transaction costs should be measured by absolute, rather than relative, bid-ask spreads. Quantile regressions indicate that both th...

Hedging of Basket Credit Derivatives in Credit Default Swap Market