Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of CDS spreads and depth

Liquidity portfolioCDS spreadDepth
MeanStdMinMaxMeanStdMinMax
Panel A: Pre-Crisis (Jan 1, 2001 – Jul 31, 2007)
1 ILLIQ225.183.087.6569.42.20.32.03.0
2189.874.884.1472.33.80.62.05.9
3146.257.164.2372.75.81.83.010.1
491.146.831.7248.28.93.33.016.5
5 LIQ90.032.537.1209.812.85.34.022.9
Panel B: Crisis (Aug 1, 2007 – Jun 30, 2009)
1 ILLIQ329.9116.2179.3913.32.00.02.02.0
2390.0212.6170.2948.13.40.43.04.0
3367.0241.297.61073.26.11.24.07.7
4250.3153.350.5670.99.22.15.012.1
5 LIQ261.8128.194.2627.312.83.36.718.6
Panel C: Post-Crisis (Jul 1, 2009 – Nov 30, 2012)
1 ILLIQ267.371.1152.0488.02.00.02.02.0
2230.447.6149.9458.93.00.03.03.3
3220.952.3121.7342.94.10.63.05.5
4216.853.7122.6416.55.20.83.07.0
5 LIQ249.870.3132.3484.07.00.85.28.7

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