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Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives, and Margins

Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives, and Margins

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Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives, and Margins

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Full title

Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives, and Margins

Publisher

Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Journal title

IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc, 2016-08, Vol.71 (4), p.1669-1698

Language

English

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Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Contents

Derivatives activity, motivated by risk-sharing, can breed risk-taking. Bad news about the risk of an asset underlying a derivative increases protection sellers' expected liability and undermines their risk-prevention incentives. This limits risk-sharing, creates endogenous counterparty risk, and can lead to contagion from news about the hedged ris...

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Risk-Sharing or Risk-Taking? Counterparty Risk, Incentives, and Margins

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1902816362

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1902816362

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ISSN

0022-1082

E-ISSN

1540-6261

DOI

10.1111/jofi.12396