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Central Counterparty Links and Clearing System Exposures

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  • Nathanael Cox

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Nicholas Garvin

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Gerard Kelly

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

Abstract

Links between central counterparties (CCPs) enable participants to clear positions in any linked CCP without needing to maintain multiple CCP memberships. While links enable exposure to be reduced by allowing netting across CCPs, CCPs become exposed to one another through the possibility of a CCP default. The change in system exposure resulting from these two effects has recently been of great interest to policymakers, and we assess this quantitatively using a straightforward extension of Duffie and Zhu (2011). Our model shows that CCP links can reduce overall system exposure in most plausible scenarios. This conclusion is robust to changes in assumptions about the nature of participants and their exposures, as well as to the existence of more than two linked CCPs.

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  • Nathanael Cox & Nicholas Garvin & Gerard Kelly, 2013. "Central Counterparty Links and Clearing System Exposures," RBA Research Discussion Papers rdp2013-12, Reserve Bank of Australia.
    • Handle: RePEc:rba:rbardp:rdp2013-12
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    Keywords

    clearing; netting; financial stability; central counterparty;
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    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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