TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bellia, Mario
A1  - Girardi, Giulio
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  - Journal of financial stability
N2  - This paper empirically analyses whether post-global financial crisis regulatory reforms have created appropriate incentives to voluntarily centrally clear over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts. We use confidential European trade repository data on single-name sovereign credit default swap (CDS) transactions and show that both seller and buyer manage counterparty exposures and capital costs, strategically choosing to clear when the counterparty is riskier. The clearing incentives seem particularly responsive to seller credit risk, which is in line with the notion that counterparty credit risk (CCR) is asymmetric in CDS contracts. The riskiness of the underlying reference entity also impacts the decision to clear as it affects both CCR capital charges for OTC contracts and central counterparty clearing house (CCP) margins for cleared contracts. Lastly, we find evidence that when a transaction helps netting positions with the CCP and hence lower margins, the likelihood of clearing is higher.
KW  - Credit default swap (CDS)
KW  - Central counterparty clearing house (CCP)
KW  - European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
KW  - Sovereign CDS
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/82976
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-829767
SN  - 1572-3089
VL  - 2024
IS  - 101247, In Press, Journal Pre-proof
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -