Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/261213 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 24/2022
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study the response of bond spreads to a liquidity supply shock in the credit default swap (CDS) market. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous exit of a large dealer from the single-name CDS market as well as granular data on CDS transactions and bond portfolio holdings of German investors. Following the shock, CDS market liquidity declines and bond spreads increase, especially for the reference firms intermediated by the dealer. Individual portfolio data indicate hedging motives as a mechanism: as CDS insurance on their bond holdings becomes costlier, investors offload the bonds. Our results therefore show that frictions in derivative markets affect the underlying securities, which can raise firms' cost of capital.
Subjects: 
credit default swaps
dealer markets
bonds markets
creditrisk
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
JEL: 
G11
G18
G20
G28
ISBN: 
978-3-95729-895-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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