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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788415803321

Autore

Lu Yinqiu

Titolo

Idiosyncratic and Systemic Risk in the European Corporate Sector : : A CDO Perspective / / Yinqiu Lu, Jorge Chan-Lau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-4072-5

1-4519-9642-X

1-283-51193-2

9786613824387

1-4519-0901-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (18 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

Chan-LauJorge

Soggetti

Financial risk - Europe

Credit derivatives - Europe

Finance: General

Investments: Stocks

Investments: Derivatives

Money and Monetary Policy

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Finance

Monetary economics

Investment & securities

CDOs

Systemic risk

Credit

Stocks

Currencies



Derivative securities

Financial risk management

Money

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. A BRIEF PRIMER ON COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS""; ""III. DEFAULT PROBABILITY AND DEFAULT CORRELATION, IN STCDOS""; ""IV. IDIOSYNCRATIC AND SYSTEMIC RISK IN STCDO TRANCHES""; ""V. DATA AND EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK""; ""VI. RESULTS""; ""VII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Systemic risk remains a major concern to policymakers since widespread defaults in the corporate and financial sectors could pose substantial costs to society. Forward-looking measures and/or indicators of systemic default risk are thus needed to identify potential buildups of vulnerability in advance. In this paper, we explain how to construct idiosyncratic and systemic default risk indicators using the information embedded in single-tranche standardized collateralized debt obligations (STCDOs) referencing credit derivatives indices. As an illustration, both risk indicators are constructed for the European corporate sector using midprice quotes for STCDOs referencing the iTraxx Europe index.