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Why is Price Discovery in Credit Default Swap Markets News-Specific?

European Banking Center Discussion Paper No. 2012-004

CentER Discussion Paper Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-006

41 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2012 Last revised: 25 Jan 2012

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Ian W. Marsh

City University London - The Business School

Wolf Wagner

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

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Date Written: January 25, 2012

Abstract

We analyse daily lead-lag patterns in US equity and credit default swap (CDS) returns. We first document that equity returns robustly lead CDS returns. However, we find that the CDS-lag is due to common (and not firm-specific) news and arises predominantly in response to positive (instead of negative) equity market news. We provide an explanation for this news-specific price discovery based on dealers in the CDS market exploiting their informational advantage vis-à-vis institutional investors with hedging demands. In support of this explanation we find that the CDS-lag and its news-specificity are related to various firm-level proxies for hedging demand in the cross section as well measures for economy-wide informational asymmetries over time.

Keywords: price discovery, CDS, hedging demand, informational asymmetries

JEL Classification: G12, G15, G21

Suggested Citation

Marsh, Ian William and Wagner, Wolf, Why is Price Discovery in Credit Default Swap Markets News-Specific? (January 25, 2012). European Banking Center Discussion Paper No. 2012-004, CentER Discussion Paper Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1980860 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1980860

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Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) ( email )

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