The OFR released a working paper today entitled, "The Market-implied Probability of European Government Intervention in Distressed Banks." This paper finds a market perception that government bailouts and private bail-ins (losses imposed on bondholders) are less likely than in the past for European banks in distress. To measure this likelihood, the authors study the price spread between old credit default swap contracts and ones with a new definition of default linked to government intervention.
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