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Credit Default Swaps around the World
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- Issue Date
- 2022-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Citation
- Review of Financial Studies, Vol.35 No.5, pp.2464-2524
- Abstract
- © 2021 The Authors 2021. Published by Oxford University Press.We analyze the impact of the introduction of credit default swaps (CDSs) on real decision-making within the firm. Our structural model predicts that CDS introduction increases debt capacity more when uncertainty about the credit events that trigger CDS payment is lower. Using a sample of more than 56,000 firms across 51 countries, we find that CDSs increase leverage more in legal and market environments where uncertainty about CDS obligations is reduced and when property rights are weaker. Our results highlight the importance of legal uncertainty in the interpretation of the underlying trigger events of global credit derivatives.
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- 0893-9454
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