The Impact of Credit Default Swap Introduction on Firm Systematic Risk

This paper empirically explores how the introduction of Credit Default Swap (CDS) trading affects firm systematic risk. By treating the introduction as an event study and imploring propensity score matching and difference-in-differences analysis, this research finds that firm exposure to market risk...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Elan M.
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1063
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2021&context=cmc_theses