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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969850403321

Autore

Spackman Carolyne

Titolo

The Use (and Abuse) of CDS Spreads During Distress / / Carolyne Spackman, Manmohan Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612842832

9781462388066

146238806X

9781452778327

1452778329

9781451872095

1451872097

9781282842830

1282842838

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (13 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SinghManmohan

Disciplina

338.267

Soggetti

Credit derivatives

Derivative securities

Asset prices

Bankruptcy

Banks

Bonds

Credit default swap

Credit

Currencies

Deflation

Depository Institutions

Event Studies

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Financial institutions

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Government and the Monetary System

Inflation

Information and Market Efficiency

International Lending and Debt Problems

Investment & securities

Investments: Bonds

Liquidation



Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

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

Monetary Systems

Money and Monetary Policy

Money

Mortgages

Payment Systems

Price Level

Prices

Regimes

Standards

Ecuador

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Recent Distress in Financial Institutions; Figures; 1. Landsbanki; 2. Washington Mutual; 3. Lehman Brothers; III. Policy Implications of Using Stochastic Recovery; Table 1. CDS Settlements Determined Under the ISDA Cash Opt-in Protocol; Box 1. Ecuador ISDA Auction; Appendix I. Recovery Swaps, or Where the Ctd Bonds End Up; References

Sommario/riassunto

Credit Default Swap spreads have been used as a leading indicator of distress. Default probabilities can be extracted from CDS spreads, but during distress it is important to take account of the stochastic nature of recovery value. The recent episodes of Landbanski, WAMU and Lehman illustrate that using the industry-standard fixed recovery rate assumption gives default probabilities that are low relative to those extracted from stochastic recovery value as proxied by the cheapest-to-deliver bonds. Financial institutions using fixed rate recovery assumptions could have a false sense of security, and could be faced with outsized losses with potential knock-on effects for other institutions. To ensure effective oversight of financial institutions, and to monitor the stability of the global financial system especially during distress, the stochastic nature of recovery rates needs to be incorporated.