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The real effect of CDS trading: Evidence from corporate employment

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  • Shaojie Lai
  • Shiang Liu
  • Xiaoling Pu
  • Jianing Zhang

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This paper examines whether the inception of credit default swaps (CDS) trading curbs corporate employment. We show that firms with CDS trading have significantly lower employment growth. Our baseline results are robust to alternative measures of corporate employment growth, various approaches that mitigate endogeneity concerns due to omitted variables and reverse causality, and additional control variables. The decrease in firms' employment growth after CDS trading is more pronounced in firms with larger financial constraints and lower CEO risk‐taking. In addition, we find that the inception of CDS trading affects employment growth through the financial distress channel. Further analysis finds that the inception of CDS trading could mitigate the labor over‐investment problem, stimulating employment efficiency. Our evidence suggests that corporate employment growth is reduced after the initiation of CDS trading due to the heightened cost of defaults.

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  • Shaojie Lai & Shiang Liu & Xiaoling Pu & Jianing Zhang, 2025. "The real effect of CDS trading: Evidence from corporate employment," International Review of Finance, International Review of Finance Ltd., vol. 25(1), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:irvfin:v:25:y:2025:i:1:n:e12464
    DOI: 10.1111/irfi.12464
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