Laying Off Credit Risk: Loan Sales versus Credit Default Swaps

Author(s):  
Christine A. Parlour ◽  
Andrew Winton
2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Parlour ◽  
Andrew Winton

Author(s):  
Chenyu Shan ◽  
Dragon Yongjun Tang ◽  
Hong Yan ◽  
Xing (Alex) Zhou

Abstract While credit default swaps (CDSs) can be used to hedge credit risk exposures or to speculate, we examine another use of them: banks buy CDS referencing their borrowers to obtain regulatory capital relief. Such capital relief activities have unintended consequences, as banks extend riskier loans when they buy CDS to boost capital ratios. While capital-induced CDS-user banks achieve higher profitability during normal times, they perform worse and request more government support in crisis periods than other banks that use CDS for trading or speculation. Our findings suggest that banks’ CDS trading for capital relief purposes may make these banks riskier.


Author(s):  
Fatma Sezer Dural

The credit default swap market has experienced an exponential growth in recent decades. Though the fırst credit default swap contract was negotiated in the mid-1990s, the market has enjoyed a surge of popularity beginning in 2003. By the end of June 2013, the outstanding amount reached 24.3 trillion dollars. It is mostly used to transfer or to hedge credit risk. Concurrently with the global credit crisis, several shortcomings in CDS markets have appeared. One of the obvious questions is whether they affect the stability of financial markets. In this context after broader exhibition of credit default swaps market, speculative use of CDS, inception of central counterparty, and transparency of CDS market is handled. As a conclusion, it is true that the CDS market still has some weaknesses, but it is no more prone to be destabilizing than other financial instruments. This is shown in this chapter.


Author(s):  
Marti G. Subrahmanyam ◽  
Dragon Yongjun Tang ◽  
Sarah Qian Wang

Author(s):  
Mehdi Beyhaghi ◽  
Iftekhar Hasan ◽  
Nadia Massoud ◽  
Anthony Saunders ◽  
Deming Wu

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