Market Responses to LIBOR Misrepresentation of Credit Risk

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dc.contributor.advisorWest, James E., 1944-
dc.contributor.authorRhodes, Joshua
dc.contributor.departmentFinance.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-18T17:01:28Z
dc.date.available2018-12-18T17:01:28Z
dc.date.copyright2018-12-03
dc.date.issued2018-12-18
dc.description.abstractThe London Inter Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is used to reflect the cost of unsecured, overnight debt for large financial institutions and is used to price over $300 Trillion in financial contracts, worldwide. Although banks were penalized for defrauding the process of fixing LIBOR during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis, no papers have studied the influence that LIBOR submissions had on other credit-risk indicators. In this paper, I use a Granger Causality Test to determine whether LIBOR submissions Granger Cause movements in these indicators. I find that changes in LIBOR rates Granger Cause changes in other credit-risk indicators but show a meaningfully different relationship from 2007- 2009. The post-crisis relationship strengthens and suggests a restoration of confidence from 2010-2017. I interpret this as evidence of the isolated costs of LIBOR misrepresentation upon the functioning of broader credit markets and the restoration of market balance by market participants and regulations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/10471
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectFinanceen_US
dc.subjectEconomicsen_US
dc.subjectEconometricsen_US
dc.subjectMoney and Bankingen_US
dc.titleMarket Responses to LIBOR Misrepresentation of Credit Risken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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