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Valuation of default-risky interest-rate swaps
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Beyond plain vanilla: a taxonomy of swaps
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Covered call options: a proposal to ease LDC debt
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Innovations in modeling the term structure of interest rates
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Inflation and the yield curve
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An introduction to portfolio insurance
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The impact of a dealer's failure on OTC derivatives market liquidity during volatile periods
This paper develops a model in which information losses may be an important part of the cost of an OTC derivatives dealer's failure. A dealer failure forces solvent counterparties of a failed dealer to seek replacement hedges with other dealers. However, by forcing good firms into the derivatives market, the failure provides camouflage for insolvent firms seeking to speculate with a dealer that does not know their credit status. The paper models this information loss and uses the model to quantitatively evaluate a range of scenarios. The results suggest that a market breakdown is unlikely but ...