The use of credit default swaps by bond mutual funds: Liquidity provision and counterparty risk

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aragon, George O.; Li, Lei; Qian, Jun QJ
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors; Fudan University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.07.014
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 168-185
• 关键词: Bond funds; Credit Default Swaps; CRISIS; liquidity provision; COUNTERPARTY RISK

摘要

Corporate bond mutual funds increased their selling of credit protection in the credit default swaps (CDS) market during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. This trading activity was primarily in multi-name CDS, greater among larger and established funds, and directed toward counterparty dealers in financial distress. Funds that sold credit protection during the crisis experienced greater credit market risk and superior post-crisis performance, consistent with higher expected returns from liquidity provision. Funds using Lehman Brothers as a counterparty experienced abnormal outflows and returns of -2% immediately following Lehman's bankruptcy, suggesting that funds' opportunistic trading in CDS exposed investors to counterparty risk. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.