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Central clearing boosts welfare but margin matters – RBA paper

Welfare gains are sensitive to the level of margin requirements

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Research published today (November 2) by the Reserve Bank of Australia models the conditions under which mandatory central clearing boosts welfare.

The working paper, The efficiency of central clearing: a segmented markets approach, by James Hansen and Angus Moore, tackles the question using a general equilibrium model with segmented and incomplete markets. By mutualising counterparty credit risk, a central counterparty (CCP) can boost welfare, particularly when the probability of default is

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