TY  - UNPD
A1  - Bellia, Mario
A1  - Panzica, Roberto Calogero
A1  - Pelizzon, Loriana
A1  - Peltonen, Tuomas
T1  - The demand for central clearing: to clear or not to clear, that is the question
T2  - SAFE working paper series ; No. 193
N2  - This paper analyses whether the post-crisis regulatory reforms developed by global-standard-setting bodies have created appropriate incentives for different types of market participants to centrally clear Over-The-Counter (OTC) derivative contracts. Beyond documenting the observed facts, we analyze four main drivers for the decision to clear: 1) the liquidity and riskiness of the reference entity; 2) the credit risk of the counterparty; 3) the clearing member’s portfolio net exposure with the Central Counterparty Clearing House (CCP) and 4) post trade transparency. We use confidential European trade repository data on single-name Sovereign Credit Derivative Swap (CDS) transactions, and show that for all the transactions reported in 2016 on Italian, German and French Sovereign CDS 48% were centrally cleared, 42% were not cleared despite being eligible for central clearing, while 9% of the contracts were not clearable because they did not satisfy certain CCP clearing criteria. However, there is a large difference between CCP clearing members that clear about 53% of their transactions and non-clearing members, even those that are subject to counterparty risk capital requirements, that almost never clear their trades. Moreover, we find that diverse factors explain clearing members’ decision to clear different CDS contracts: for Italian CDS, counterparty credit risk exposures matter most for the decision to clear, while for French and German CDS, margin costs are the most important factor for the decision. Clearing members use clearing to reduce their exposures to the CCP and largely clear contracts when at least one of the traders has a high counterparty credit risk.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 193 
KW  - Credit Default Swap (CDS)
KW  - Central Counterparty Clearing House (CCP)
KW  - European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
KW  - Sovereign
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45617
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-456175
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3116261
N1  - First Version: June 1, 2017 ; This version: January 19, 2018
IS  - version: January 19, 2018
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -