What’s driving the default swap basis?
Viktor Hjort
Introduction
Credit derivatives: the past, the present and the future
The determinants of credit spread returns
What’s driving the default swap basis?
What is the value of modified restructuring?
The debt and equity linkage and the valuation of credit derivatives
Nth to default swaps and notes: all about default correlation
Portfolio credit risk models
Credit derivatives as an efficient way of transitioning to optimal portfolios
Overview of the CDO market
Synthetic securitisation and structured portfolio credit derivatives
Integrating credit derivatives and securitisation technology: the collateralised synthetic obligation
Considerations for dynamic and static, cash and synthetic collateralised debt obligations
CDOs of CDOs: art eating itself?
Valuation and risk analysis of synthetic collateralised debt obligations: a copula function approach
Extreme events and multi-name credit derivatives
Reduced-form models: curve construction and the pricing of credit swaps, options and hybrids
Dynamite dynamics
Modelling and hedging of default risk
ISDA’s role in the credit derivatives marketplace
Credit linked notes
Using guarantees and credit derivatives to reduce credit risk capital requirements under the New Basel Capital Accord
INTRODUCTION
The significant growth seen in the credit default swap (CDS) market has been driven to a great extent by its role as a proxy for the bond and loan market. Although the default swap market adds value for many investors by providing access to credits not readily available in the cash markets, its main importance is as an instrument that allows investors to isolate credit risk from interest and funding risk.
This assumes that the exposure achieved through a default swap position replicates that of a similar position in the cash market, but stripped of interest rate and funding risk. However, in the market we frequently observe divergence, often significant, between the premium paid on a default swap and that paid on a cash instrument of the same credit and maturity. Here, we present an overview of the factors driving this basis and also analyse the relationship between the cash and derivatives markets at the market, sector and individual credit levels.
The default swap market is often perceived as driven primarily by technical factors, particular to this market only. We find little evidence to support this view. Instead, the nature of the markets argues for a close
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