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Credit Derivatives, Disintermediation and Investment Decisions

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  • Alan Morrison

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The credit derivatives market provides a liquid but opaque forum for secondary market trading of banking assets. I show that when entrepreneurs rely upon the certification value of bank debts to obtain cheap bond market insurance, the existance of a credit derivatives market may cause them to issue sub-investment grade bonds instead, and to engage in second-best behaviour. Credit derivatives can therefore cause disintermediation and thus reduce welfare. I argue that this effect can be most effectively countered by the introduction of reporting requirements for credit derivatives.

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  • Alan Morrison, 2001. "Credit Derivatives, Disintermediation and Investment Decisions," Economics Series Working Papers 2001-FE-01, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxf:wpaper:2001-fe-01
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    Cited by:

    1. Martin Scheicher, 2003. "Credit Derivatives - Overview and Implications for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability," Financial Stability Report, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue 5, pages 96-111.
    2. Minton, Bernadette A. & Stulz, Rene M. & Williamson, Rohan, 2005. "How Much Do Banks Use Credit Derivatives to Reduce Risk?," Working Paper Series 2005-17, Ohio State University, Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics.
    3. Halili, Alba & Fenech, Jean-Pierre & Contessi, Silvio, 2021. "Credit Derivatives and Bank Systemic Risk: Risk Enhancing or Reducing?," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 42(C).
    4. Instefjord, Norvald, 2005. "Risk and hedging: Do credit derivatives increase bank risk?," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 29(2), pages 333-345, February.

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    Keywords

    Credit derivative; monitoring; junk bonds; debt finance; capital structure;
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    JEL classification:

    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance

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