Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152838 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 404
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions. While settlement failures are non monotonically related to the length of settlement cycles under both architectures, there is no clear cut ranking of which architecture delivers greater stability. We show that while, on average, netting systems seem to be more stable than gross systems, rare events may lead to contagious defaults that could affect the all system. Furthermore netting system are very sensitive to the number and initial distribution of traded shares.
Subjects: 
gross and net systems
Security clearing and settlement
systemic risk
JEL: 
C6
D4
G20
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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