This Paul Woolley Centre Working paper, analyses credit default swap settlement auctions, showing the current auction design many not result in the fair bond price, and suggests modifications to the auction design to minimise mispricing. In particular it finds that an auction undervalues bonds by 10 per cent on average, on the day of the auction.
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Alexander Gorbenko, auctions, CDS, Igor Makarov, London Business School, London School of Economics, Mikhail Chernov, Paul Woolley Centre
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