SURVEYS AND CROSSOVERS: Sovereign Credit Default Swap Premia
Patrick Augustin
Volume 12, Number 2, Second Quarter 2014
This paper reviews the young but rapidly growing literature on sovereign credit default swap premia. A discussion of current debates in the academic and popular press hopefully raises thought-provoking questions with valuable insights for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike. The main elements of the review relate to the determinants of sovereign CDS spreads, spillovers and contagion, frictions, the relationship to and impact on public bonds, as well as trading in the market for sovereign credit derivatives. In addition, I describe key statistical and stylized facts about prices, the market, and its players.