Owaiz
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Not sure where exactly this is from, but the reference to BNP and Spain and correlation between reference and counterparty makes me think this is studying the risk that the seller of default insurance itself is not able to pay out in case of a default by the insured entity, because it itself has defaulted.Post GFC, senior tranches suffered loss even at lower correlation levels.
this was because of the very fact, that repo deposits (hot money deposits) were moving through off the books CDO SPVs.
this is characterized in many post GFC (nature of hot money deposits!) studies!
as seen below, correlation levels cooling down (highlighted in red circle!) when CDS spreads were rising (which does not make sense initially!)
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Typically, these CDS trades are quite illiquid and expensive to get in and out of. Interesting from an academic perspective, but not the kind of stuff hot money typically does in practice.





