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Chapter 5 CREDIT DERIVATIVES. Abstract Credit derivatives are instruments used to measure, manage, and transfer credit risk. Recently, there has been an explosive growth in the use of these instruments in the financial markets. | Chapter 5 CREDIT DERIVATIVES REN-RAW CHEN Rutgers University USA JING-ZHI HUANG Penn State University USA Abstract Credit derivatives are instruments used to measure manage and transfer credit risk. Recently there has been an explosive growth in the use of these instruments in the financial markets. This article reviews the structure and use of some credit derivative instruments that are popular in practice. Keywords credit derivatives credit risk default risk credit spreads asset swaps default swaps credit default swaps total return swaps basket default swaps credit spread options . Introduction Recent years have seen a dramatic expansion in the use of credit derivatives in the financial industry. Credit derivatives are used in the diversification and transfer of credit risk the ability to leverage and the creation of new asset classes providing yield enhancement. This growth is likely to continue as institutional investors broker-dealers hedge funds and insurance companies all realize the advantages that these instruments have over the traditional alternatives. In the following we present an overview of the main credit derivatives such as default swaps total return swaps and credit spread options. . Asset Swaps The most basic building block in the credit world is perhaps the asset swap. An asset swap is a simple structure that enables a counterparty receiving fixed payments on a security to exchange the fixed coupon for a floating rate payment at a fixed spread to London Interbank Offered Rate LIBOR . Historically banks have used asset swaps to match their long-term fixed-rate assets with their short-term liabilities . mortgage loans against depositor accounts. In a par asset swap one party delivers a risky asset to the other in return for par. They then receive the cash flows of a risky bond in return for regular payments of LIBOR plus a fixed spread or minus a fixed spread if the asset is better quality than LIBOR . a . Treasury security . The .

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