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This paper studies the determinants of interest rate spreads of euro area 10 year government bonds against the benchmark, the German bund, after the introduction of the euro. In particular, it pays attention to the question whether market discipline is advanced or obstructed by financial...
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This study calibrates the term structure of risk premia before and during the 2007/2008 financial crisis using a new calibration approach based on credit default swaps. The risk premium term structure was flat before the crisis and downward sloping during the crisis. The instantaneous risk...
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We investigate the problem of modeling defaults of dependent credits. In the framework of the class of structural default models we study threshold models where for each credit the underling ability-to-pay process is a transformation of a Wiener processes. We propose a model for dependent...
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valid valuation techniques. A sound understanding of already existing credit pricing models is necessary for such a … development. These models are the key focus of this working paper. -- Credit risk pricing models ; asset-based models ; asset … ; pricing ; valuation ; default spread ; risk management ; credit portfolio management …
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valuation techniques. A sound understanding of already existing credit pricing models is necessary for such a development. These … models are the key focus of this working paper. -- Credit risk pricing models ; asset-based models ; asset-value models … ; structural models ; intensity-based models ; reduced-form models ; credit derivatives ; credit default swap ; pricing ; valuation …
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In almost every financial market crisis we can observe widening credit spreads, especially in the last years during the subprime and sovereign debt crisis. But what exactly drives the credit spread? This paper will outline static components, i.e. default risk, liquidity, risk and the relative...
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After the onset of the subprime crisis and the European debt crisis, credit default swaps (CDS) have seen a strong increase in usage. Particularly sovereign CDS protection has been sought after, paralleling the rise in sovereign debt levels, slumps in GDP growth and political tensions in...
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derivatives ; credit derivatives market ; credit default swap ; credit risk transfer ; pricing ; valuation ; default spread …
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This paper quantifies liquidity and credit premia in German and French government bond yields. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of government-guaranteed agency bonds and exploit the fact that any difference in their yields vis-`a-vis government bonds can be attributed to differences...
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turmoil in the summer of 2007 induced a substantial increase in risk aversion and a shift in the pricing of credit risk, with …
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