scholarly journals The Role of Redenomination Risk in the Price Evolution of Italian Banks’ CDS Spreads

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Michele Anelli ◽  
Michele Patanè ◽  
Mario Toscano ◽  
Stefano Zedda
Keyword(s):  
Financial Distress ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Merton Model ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
High Volatility ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis

The recent financial crisis offered an interesting opportunity to analyze the markets’ behavior in a high-volatility framework. In this paper, we analyzed the price discovery process of the Italian banks’ Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads through the Merton model, extended with the inclusion of a redenomination risk proxy, as to say, the risk that Italy could leave the eurozone. This paper contributes to the literature by integrating the classic Merton model with a political-sensitive market variable able to explain the greatest variance in the Italian banks’ CDS spreads during the most relevant and commonly recognized periods of socio-political and financial distress. Results show that the redenomination risk is progressively becoming the main driver of the process during crises, in particular for the sovereign debt crisis and in 2018.

Credit Default Swaps: A Primer and Some Recent Trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
David Lando
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Default Swap ◽  
Trading Volumes

The credit default swap (CDS) remains an important class of derivatives contract despite the declining activity in the single-name corporate market. I provide a quick introduction to the contracts, the pricing formula used to interpret the market premiums, the development in trading volumes, and some key insights that are important for understanding its role in markets. I then take a closer look at the CDS-bond basis and the role of trading and regulatory frictions. Finally, the European sovereign debt crisis brought back in focus the notion of a quanto spread, which I explain.

scholarly journals Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Buera ◽  
Sudipto Karmakar
Keyword(s):  
Financial Distress ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
Financial Shock

Abstract Which firms are more sensitive to an aggregate financial shock? What can be learnt from these heterogeneous responses? We evaluate and answer these questions from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Using micro data from Portugal during the sovereign debt crisis we find that highly leveraged firms and firms with a larger share of short-term debt on their balance sheets contracted more in the aftermath of the financial shock. We analyse the conditions under which leverage and debt maturity determine the sensitivity of firms’ investment decisions to financial shocks in standard models of investment under financial frictions. In doing so, we extend these models to feature a maturity choice. We show that simple versions of these models are not consistent with the observed heterogeneous responses. The model needs the presence of frictions when issuing long-term debt to rationalise the empirical findings.

Issuers’ credit risk and pricing of warrants in the recent financial crisis

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Schertler ◽  
Saskia Stoerch
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Price Setting ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether factor sensitivities of margins of bank-issued warrants depend on issuers’ credit risk during the period of economic turmoil between January 2008 and June 2010. Design/methodology/approach – Therefore, first, Fama–MacBeth estimations were applied and it was demonstrate that the sensitivities of margins in terms of time to maturity and moneyness vary substantially over time; the average outcomes are similar to the results of classical pooled estimations. Findings – Then, time-series tests were used and it was found that the steepness of the issuers’ credit default swap (CDS) spread curves correlates negatively with the time-to-maturity sensitivities as well as with the explanatory power of Fama–MacBeth estimations. Research limitations/implications – These findings indicate that the life-cycle hypothesis is weakened when the issuers’ CDS spread curves become steeper. Originality/value – Thus, this study offers a new approach to gain insights into the role of issuers’ credit risk on price setting behavior.

scholarly journals Corporate governance and firm performance in periods of financial distress

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kyriazopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Outside Directors ◽  
Board Size

This study investigates the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance employing data from 203 firms listed on the Athens Stock Exchange between 2005 and 2014. This period encompass the sovereign debt crisis erupted in Greece in 2010 and still continues to hit households and businesses alike. The results from the panel regression analysis signify the role of corporate governance in determining the firm performance of the Greek listed firms. In particular, the empirical results reveal a positive impact of board size and composition on corporate performance. Though the role of board size remains unaltered during the crisis period that of outside directors diminishes as the certification provided by auditors seem to replace much of the variation in firm performance. Finally, leverage and liquidity are the two firm-specific factors that their effect was strengthened during the financially-constraint period.

scholarly journals Sovereign Credit Default Swap and Stock Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: Are Feedback Effects at Work?

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorin Gabriel Anton ◽  
Anca Elena Afloarei Nucu
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Transfer Entropy ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Sovereign Credit ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Default Swap

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relationship between sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS) and stock markets in nine emerging economies from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), using daily data over the period January 2008–April 2018. The analysis deploys a Vector Autoregressive model, focusing on the direction of Granger causality between the credit and stock markets. We find evidence of the presence of bidirectional feedback between sovereign CDS and stock markets in CEE countries. The results highlight a transfer entropy of risk from the private to public sector over the whole period and respectively, from the public to private transfer entropy of risk during the European sovereign debt crisis only in Romania and Slovenia. Another finding that deserves particular attention is that the linkage between the CDS spreads and stock markets is time-varying and subject to regime shifts, depending on global financial conditions, such as the sovereign debt crisis. By providing insights on the inter-temporal causality of the comovements of the CDS–stock markets, the paper has significant practical implications for risk management practices and regulatory policies, under different market conditions of European emerging economies.

Regulation of uncovered sovereign credit default swaps – evidence from the European Union

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Kiesel ◽  
Felix Lücke ◽  
Dirk Schiereck
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sovereign Credit ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Purpose – This study aims to analyze the impact and effectiveness of the regulation on the European sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS) market. The European sovereign debt crisis has drawn considerable attention to the CDS market. CDS have the ability of a speculative instrument to bet against a sovereign default. Therefore, the Regulation (EU) No. 236/2012 was introduced as the worldwide first uncovered CDS regulation. It prohibits buying uncovered sovereign CDS contracts in the European Union (EU). Design/methodology/approach – First, this paper measures spread changes of sovereign CDS of the EU member states around regulation specific event dates to detect whether and when European sovereign CDS reacts to regulation announcements and the enforcement of regulation. Second, it compares the CDS long-term stability of the EU sample with a non-EU sample based on 44 non-EU sovereign CDS entities. Findings – The results indicate widening CDS spreads prior to the regulation, and stable CDS spreads following the introduction of the regulation. In particular, sovereign CDS of European crisis-hit entities are stable since the regulation was introduced. Originality/value – The results show that since the regulation of uncovered CDS in the EU has been enacted, the sovereign CDS market is stable and less volatile. Based on the theory about speculation on uncovered sovereign CDS by betting on the reference entity’s default, the introduction of Regulation (EU) No. 236/2012 appears to be an appropriate measure to stabilize markets and reduce speculation on sovereign defaults.

scholarly journals MEASURING CONTAGION EFFECT OF GREEK SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS ON INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Arif Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Impulse Response ◽  
Response Function ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Contagion Effect ◽  
Sovereign Risk ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Auto Regressive

Abstraksi Saat krisis utang Yunani memuncak, banyak negara terkena efek domino sampai derajat tertentu. Indonesia mungkin terkena juga dampak dari krisis walaupun tidak ada jalur yang kuat untuk mengalirkan krisis. Sampai saat ini krisis utang Yunani belum berakhir sepenuhnya dan karenanya perlu untuk mengevaluasi dampak dari krisis terhadap ekonomi Indonesia untuk antisipasi kemungkinan krisis susulan. Menggunakan model Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) untuk menangkap hubungan antara tingkat harga instrumen Credit Default Swap antara dua negara: Indonesia dan Yunani, penelitian ini melakukan estimasi dampak krisis Yunani terhadap Indonesia melalui Impulse Response Function berbasis parameter model VAR. Hasil estimasi menunjukkan dampak krisis Yunani terhadap Indonesia adalah sangat lemah. Hal ini mengindikasikan bahwa investor mungkin telah menyadari bahwa ekonomi Indonesia cukup terisolasi dari krisis Yunani dan karenanya tidak mengubah persepsi sovereign risk Indonesia. Kata Kunci: Krisis Utang Yunani, Efek Domino, Model VAR, Impulse Response Function      Abstract As Greece Debt Crisis emerged, many countries suffered contagion effect to some level. Indonesia might have been affected by the crisis even there was no strong link to transfers the shock. As the debt crisis has not yet over completely, we need to evaluate the impact of previous shock on Indonesian economy to anticipate the possibility of the next event.  Employing Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) model to capture connection between Sovereign Credit Default Swap of two countries we found our estimation of Impulse Response Function of Indonesia CDS on shock in Greece CDS and concluded that the magnitude of debt crisis in uprising credit default risk on Indonesia was considered to be very low. This dynamic told us that investors may have learnt that Indonesian economy was quiet isolated from shock in Greece and they expected no change in the Indonesia sovereign risk. Keywords: Greece Sovereign Debt Crisis, Contagion, VAR Model, Impulse Response Function

Testing sovereign contagion via changes of CDS price in European debt crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Duong Thi Hieu
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Regression Approach ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Uk

Much empirical research has been carried out to test the presence of contagion in European sovereign debt crisis since the beginning of 2010. In this paper I will consider contagion as a change in the transmission mechanism of shock, illustrating co-movement among the sovereign credit default swap (CDS) markets of seven European countries and the UK from November 2008 up until June 2013. By examining daily pricing data of the five-year sovereign CDS contracts of these countries, I found a large increase in the volatility in the period of crisis, and hence a correlation test is invalid, but parametric method with GARCH residual time series and quantile regression approach are applicable. The first test modelling time series’ residuals by GARCH formula shows no contagion. In the second method, slope equality tests analyse the stability in linear relationship among markets across quantile and find no evidence of contagion. This final result of no contagion during the debt crisis suggests that the reason of the sovereign risk’s propagation is the conventional interdependence among countries, not the greatness of the shock.

scholarly journals What Factors Influence European Corporate Bond Spread?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Arcuri ◽  
Gino Gandolfi ◽  
Manou Monteux ◽  
Giovanni Verga
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Corporate Bond ◽  
Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sovereign Bonds ◽  
European Sovereign Debt Crisis ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Main Determinants

This paper examines the main determinants of corporate euro-bond spread. We analyse a large sample of corporate euro-country bonds over the period May 2005 -January 2012, considering three sub-periods: May 2005- July 2007 (pre-crisis period), August 2007-April 2010 (worldwide financial crisis) and May 2010-January 2012 (European sovereign debt crisis). We show that both liquidity risk and risk related to the country of the issuing firms affect corporate bond spread. We also find that the market yield of corporate bonds issued in the main European countries is, other things being equal, strongly influenced by the risk of the corresponding sovereign bonds and Credit Default Swap (CDS). Finally, we compare the yields of bonds issued by banks with those of bonds issued by firms from other sectors and find that the spread, other things being equal, is significantly higher for banks. These findings may have operating implications for market activity, regulators and policy makers.

Debt Crisis and Learning – Replying to Two Stimulating Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky ◽  
Kunibert Raffer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Debt Crises

AbstractThis piece tackles Barrio Arleo and Lienau’s comments on Sovereign Debt Crises: What Have We Learned? while tries to further develop some ideas and discussions proposed in the book. This piece deals with existing alternatives to overcome debt crises, the link between sovereign policy space and the principle of creditors’ equal treatment, who the target of the book is (and should be), whether “learning is enough”, and the potential policy and legal role of human rights law in debt restructurings.

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