Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193561 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ESRB Working Paper Series No. 54
Publisher: 
European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), European System of Financial Supervision, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We perform a network analysis of the centrally cleared interest rate derivatives market in the European Union, by looking at counterparty relations within both direct (house) clearing and client clearing. Since the majority of the gross notional is transferred within central counterparties and their clearing members, client clearing is often neglected in the literature, despite its significance in terms of net exposures. We find that the client clearing structure is very strongly interconnected and contains on the order of 90% of the counterparty relations in the interest rate derivatives market. Moreover, it is more diverse in terms of geography and sectors of the financial market the counterparties are associated with. Client clearing is also significantly more volatile in time than direct clearing. These findings underline the importance of analysing the structure and stability of both direct and client clearing of the interest rate derivatives market in Europe, to improve understanding of this important market and potential contagion mechanisms within it.
Subjects: 
systemic risk
interconnectedness
financial networks
interest rate derivatives
central counterparties
client clearing
EMIR data
JEL: 
G10
L14
G23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-95210-41-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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