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The Credit Default Swaps market: areas of vulnerability and regulatory responses

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  • Óscar Arce
  • Fco. Javier González Pueyo
  • Lucio Sanjuán

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CONTENTS: This Working Papers analyses the Credit Default Swaps market with emphasis on the main problems affecting the running of this market as well as on the different regulatory initiatives recently set up. In this context the proposals to amend regulation in the US and in Europe are analysed and the advisability and effectiveness of restricting short-selling of CDSs are evaluated.

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  • Óscar Arce & Fco. Javier González Pueyo & Lucio Sanjuán, 2010. "The Credit Default Swaps market: areas of vulnerability and regulatory responses," CNMV Working Papers CNMV Working Papers no. 4, CNMV- Spanish Securities Markets Commission - Research and Statistics Department.
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