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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825686803321

Autore

Andritzky Jochen R

Titolo

The pricing of credit default swaps during distress / / prepared by Jochen Andritzky and Manmohan Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.], : International Monetary Fund, c2006

ISBN

1-4623-6493-4

1-4527-0069-9

1-283-51509-1

9786613827548

1-4519-0967-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/06/254

Altri autori (Persone)

SimhaManamohana

Soggetti

Swaps (Finance)

Default (Finance)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. CDS VALUATION AND THE BASIS""; ""III. THE ROLE OF RECOVERY""; ""IV. DATA ANALYSIS""; ""V. IMPLIED RECOVERY VALUES UNDER NO ARBITRAGE""; ""VI. IMPLIED RECOVERY VALUES UNDER NO ARBITRAGE WITH CTD""; ""VII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Credit default swaps (CDS) provide the buyer with insurance against certain types of credit events by entitling him to exchange any of the bonds permitted as deliverable against their par value. Unlike bonds, whose risk spreads are assumed to be the product of default risk and loss rate, CDS are par instruments, and their spreads reflect the partial recovery of the delivered bond's face value. This paper addresses the implications of the difference between bond and CDS spreads and shows the extent to which the recovery assumption matters for determining CDS spreads. A no-arbitrage argument is applied to extract recovery rates from CDS and bond markets, using data from Brazil's distress in 2002-03. Results are related to the observation that preemptive restructurings are now more common than straight defaults in sovereign bond markets and that this leads to a decoupling of CDS



and bond spreads.