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Information Insensitive Securities: The Benefits Of Central Counterparties, David C. Mills Jr, Francesca Carapella
Information Insensitive Securities: The Benefits Of Central Counterparties, David C. Mills Jr, Francesca Carapella
David C Mills Jr
This paper combines the idea that securities should be information insensitive in order to be liquid, with the idea that an infrastructure which performs clearing of trades, and offers additional services to the counterparties, facilitates securities to be liquid. In a recent paper, Gorton et al.\cite{DGH} argue that securities that serve as a transaction medium should be the least information-sensitive, and derive sufficient conditions for such security to be debt. Also, a few recent papers\footnote{Acharya and Bisin \cite{AB}, Duffie and Zhu \cite{DuffieZhu} and Koeppl and Monnet \cite{KoepplMonnet} among others.} emphasize the role of a Central Counterparty (CCP) in internalizing externalities …
Default Risk And Collateral In The Absence Of Commitment, David C. Mills, Robert R. Reed
Default Risk And Collateral In The Absence Of Commitment, David C. Mills, Robert R. Reed
David C Mills Jr
Default risk is an important concern for lenders and is a main reason they require borrowers to pledge collateral. There are two reasons for this. The first is that collateral provides some incentive for the borrower to not strategically default. The second is that, in the event of default, the lender can liquidate the collateral and salvage some value from the failed credit relationship. This paper provides a model to study properties of allocations that arise when collateral is part of an optimal lending contract that looks much like a repurchase agreement. In particular, a lack of commitment to future …