The Economics of Central Clearing

Albert Menkveld and Guillaume Vuillemey ()
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Guillaume Vuillemey: Finance Department, HEC Paris, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France

Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, 153-178

Abstract: Central clearing counterparties (CCPs) have a variety of economic rationales. The Great Recession of 2007-2009 led regulators to mandate CCPs for most interest-rate and credit derivatives, markets in which large amounts of risks are transferred across agents. This change led to a large increase in CCP studies, which along with classical studies are surveyed in this article. For example, multilateral netting, the insurance against counterparty risk, the effect of CCPs on asset prices and fire sales, margins setting, the default waterfall, and CCP governance are discussed here. We review both CCP theory and empirical work and conclude by discussing regulatory issues.

Keywords: central clearing; counterparty risk; margin; default waterfall (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G18 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-financial-100520-100321

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