Credit Derivatives in Banking: Useful Tools for Managing Risk?

Gregory R. Duffee and Chunsheng Zhou.
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Chunsheng Zhou and Greg Duffee

No RPF-289, Research Program in Finance Working Papers from University of California at Berkeley

Abstract: We model the effects on banks of the introduction of a market for credit derivatives; in particular, credit-default swaps. A bank can use such swaps to temporarily transfer credit risks of their loans to others, reducing the likelihood that defaulting loans trigger the bank's financial distress. Because credit derivatives are more flexible at transferring risks than are other, more established tools such as loan sales without recourse, these instruments make it easier for banks to circumvent the "lemons" problem caused by banks' superior information about the credit quality of their loans. However, we find that the introduction of a credit-derivatives market is not necessarily desirable because it can cause other markets for loan risk-sharing to break down.

Date: 1999-11-01
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