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Credit Default Swaps networks and systemic risk

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, November 2014
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Title
Credit Default Swaps networks and systemic risk
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Scientific Reports, November 2014
DOI 10.1038/srep06822
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Michelangelo Puliga, Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston

Abstract

Credit Default Swaps (CDS) spreads should reflect default risk of the underlying corporate debt. Actually, it has been recognized that CDS spread time series did not anticipate but only followed the increasing risk of default before the financial crisis. In principle, the network of correlations among CDS spread time series could at least display some form of structural change to be used as an early warning of systemic risk. Here we study a set of 176 CDS time series of financial institutions from 2002 to 2011. Networks are constructed in various ways, some of which display structural change at the onset of the credit crisis of 2008, but never before. By taking these networks as a proxy of interdependencies among financial institutions, we run stress-test based on Group DebtRank. Systemic risk before 2008 increases only when incorporating a macroeconomic indicator reflecting the potential losses of financial assets associated with house prices in the US. This approach indicates a promising way to detect systemic instabilities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 3 4%
Belgium 2 3%
Netherlands 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Mexico 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 71 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 30%
Researcher 17 21%
Student > Master 10 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 8 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 30 38%
Physics and Astronomy 10 13%
Mathematics 6 8%
Computer Science 5 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 10 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 November 2014.
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#2,089,417
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#18,888
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