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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968751503321

Autore

Singh Manmohan

Titolo

The Pricing of Credit Default Swaps During Distress / / Manmohan Singh, Jochen Andritzky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613827548

9781462364930

1462364934

9781452700694

1452700699

9781283515092

1283515091

9781451909678

1451909675

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

AndritzkyJochen

Soggetti

Swaps (Finance)

Default (Finance)

Banks and Banking

Bonds

Capital market

Credit default swap

Credit

Finance

Finance: General

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Interest rates

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Investment & securities

Investments: Bonds

Monetary economics

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

Money and Monetary Policy

Securities markets

Yield curve

Brazil



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.