Risk management of Credit Default Swap

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Erika Spuchlakova
Maria Misankova

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Credit derivatives are an up to date innovation in financial markets. These financial instrument have a potential to allow enterprises to trade and manage the credit risks and market risks. The striking growth of credit derivatives suggest that participant of financial markets find them to be useful instrument for risk management. The most popular and fundamental credit derivatives is a credit default swaps (CDS). In the paper we detailed the risk management of the credit default swaps and quantified the credit risk of investors in two way: (i) calculate the term structure of default probabilities from the market prices of traded CDS and (ii) calculate prices of CDS from the probability distribution of the time-to-default  

Keywords: credit risk; credit default swap; risk management

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Spuchlakova, E., & Misankova, M. (2017). Risk management of Credit Default Swap. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(4), 229–234. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i4.1573
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