Capital Constraints, Counterparty Risk, and Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity

Tests of Covered Interest Rate Parity

ECEN’FLY there has been considerable interest in and investigations of whether the covered interest parity (CIP) holds. At the inicroeconomic level, CIP is important because is it a direct consequence of covered interest arbitrage. Its failure to hold would suggest 1) that markets are inefficient in the sense that traders do not take advantage of known profit opportunities, 2) that legal restri...

Deviations from Uncovered Interest Rate Parity: A Post Keynesian Explanation

Counterparty Risk and Capital Structure

The 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession highlighted the role of counterparty risk in financial contracts, many once thought immune to such problems. However, counterparty risk can be significant in a wide variety of contracting situations and can impact capital structure decisions. Using commercial real estate leases as an example, this paper presents a new model that endogenizes the capit...

Regional Liquidity Risk and Covered Interest Parity during the Global Financial Crisis :

Abstract During the global financial crisis, there were substantial deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) condition. In particular, during the post Lehman period, the US dollar interest rate became very low on the forward market, as compared to the rate suggested by the CIP condition. However, the deviations from CIP condition varied not only across currencies but also across markets. A...

Counterparty Risk on Interest Rate Derivatives in a Multiple Curve Setup

We study the valuation and hedging of CSA interest rate derivatives. By CSA interest rate derivatives, we mean a portfolio of OTC interest rate derivatives between two defaultable counterparties, connected by the means of a netting agreement regarding the counterparty risk related cash flows between the two parties. CSA cash flows comprise the collateral relative to this netted set of contracts...