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Institute for Capacity Development

Contents

  • I. Introduction

  • II. Brief review of CDS contracts and how they are priced

    • A. Pricing CDS contracts

    • B. Evaluating Default Probabilities: Reduced-Form Models

  • III. Data and Empirical Methodology

    • A. Credit Risk Protection Payments and Implied Default Probabilities

    • B. Explaining Auction Outcomes

    • C. Discussion of results

      • Auction behavior

  • IV. Conclusions

  • References

  • Tables

  • 1. Determinants of Excess Spreads 1 - Baseline Regressions

  • 2. Determinants of Excess Spreads 2 - Additional Controls

  • 3. Estimations Using Five-year Ahead Implied Probabilities of Default

  • 4. Estimations Using Reduced Form Probability Structures

  • Figures

  • 1. Recovery Rates at CDS Settlement Auctions

  • 2. CDS Spread and Recovery Rate

  • 3. Implied Default Probabilities One-year Ahead

  • 4. Implied Default Probabilities Estimated Using Average and Actual Recoveries

  • Appendices

  • I. Definitions of Variables

  • II. Summary Statistics and Selected Correlations

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Market Signals and the Cost of Credit Risk Protection: An Analysis of CDS Settlement Auctions
Author:
Ms. Luisa Zanforlin
and
Nobuyuki Kanazawa