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This paper introduces the quantile regression- based Distance-to-Default to Probability of Default (DD-PD) mapping, which links individual firms' DD to their real world PD. Since changes in the DD depend on a handful of parameters, the mapping easily accommodates shocks arising from quantitative...
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increased moderately. This de-leveraging effect is stronger for firms exposed to significant rollover risk, while firms whose …
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This paper describes recent work to strengthen nowcasting capacity at the IMF's European department. It motivates and compiles datasets of standard and nontraditional variables, such as Google search and air quality. It applies standard dynamic factor models (DFMs) and several machine learning...
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This paper formulates a novel modeling framework that delivers: (a) forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and … systemic financial risk based on density forecasts of indicators of real activity and financial health; (b) stress-tests as … measures of the dynamics of responses of systemic risk indicators to structural shocks identified by standard macroeconomic and …
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Credit spreads rise after a monetary policy tightening, yet spread reactions are heterogeneous across firms. Exploiting information from a panel of corporate bonds matched with balance sheet data for U.S. non-financial firms, we document that firms with high leverage experience a more pronounced...
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significant impact on market-implied sovereign default risk. This adverse effect appears to be more pronounced in advanced …
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The paper shows how-in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy-the currency composition of debt changes the risk profile of …
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This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit defaul swap (CDS), bond, and equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various pressures that arise in the market. In most countries,...
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Studies have shown that markets may underprice sub-national governments’ risk on the implicit assumption that these … a simultaneous increase in sovereign risk premia and decrease in sub-national risk premia—or a de facto transfer of risk … its autonomous regions from January 2010 to June 2013, we find support for our risk transfer hypothesis. We estimate that …
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