Market Signals and the Cost of Credit Risk Protection : An Analysis of CDS Settlement Auctions /

We study the link between the probability of default implied by Credit Default Swaps (CDS) spreads and the final prices of the defaulted bonds as established at the CDS settlement auctions. We observe that the post-default recovery rates at the observed spreads imply markets were often 'surpris...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zanforlin, Luisa
Other Authors: Kanazawa, Nobuyuki
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/239
Online Access:Full text available on IMF