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Determinants of repo haircuts and bankruptcy

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  • Jean-Marc Bottazzi
  • Mario R. Pascoa
  • Guillermo Ramirez

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Variations in repo haircuts play a crucial role in leveraging (or deleveraging) in security markets, as observed in the two major economic events that happened so far in this century, the US housing bubble that burst into the great recession and the European sovereign debts episode. Repo trades are secured but recourse loans. Default triggers insolvency. Collateral may be temporarily exempt from automatic stay but creditors' final reimbursement depends on the bankruptcy outcome. We show examples of bankruptcy equilibria. We infer how haircuts are related to asset or counterparty risks whenever a bankruptcy equilibrium exists.

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  • Jean-Marc Bottazzi & Mario R. Pascoa & Guillermo Ramirez, 2017. "Determinants of repo haircuts and bankruptcy," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp615, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
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    1. Miguel Fernandes & Mario Pascoa, 2024. "Repo, Sponsored Repo and Macro-prudential Regulation," School of Economics Discussion Papers 0224, School of Economics, University of Surrey.
    2. Jean-Marc Bottazzi & Mário Páscoa & Guillermo Ramírez, 2017. "Do Security Prices Rise or Fall When Margins Are Raised?," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-01648215, HAL.
    3. Jean-Marc Bottazzi & Mario R. Pascoa & Guillermo Ramirez, 2017. "Do security prices rise or fall when margins are raised?," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp616, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.

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