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Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion Via the Updating of Beliefs

Collin-Dufresne, Pierre - 2010

Empirical tests of reduced form models of default attribute a large fraction of observed credit spreads to compensation for jump-to-default risk. However, these models preclude a "contagion-risk'' channel, where the aggregate corporate bond index reacts adversely to a credit event. In this...

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Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

He, Zhiguo - 2010

market liquidity and shorter debt maturity can exacerbate this externality and cause costly firm bankruptcy at higher … fundamental thresholds. Our model provides implications on liquidity-spillover effects, the flight-to-quality phenomenon, and …

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …

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Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?

Bolton, Patrick - 2011

Derivative contracts, swaps, and repos enjoy "super-senior" status in bankruptcy: they are exempt from the automatic stay on debt and collateral collection that applies to virtually all other claims. We propose a simple corporate finance model to assess the effect of this exemption on firms'...

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Designed to Fail : Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment

Cox, James C. - 2018

We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income Driven Repayment when the majority would benefit from doing so. To do so we run an incentivized laboratory experiment using a facsimile of the government's Student Loan Exit Counseling website. We test the role information complexity,...

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A Model of Mortgage Default

Campbell, John Y. - 2011

income, house price, inflation, and interest rate risk. Mortgage default is triggered by negative home equity, which results … from declining house prices in a low inflation environment with large mortgage balances outstanding. Not all households … substantially affected by idiosyncratic shocks to labor income. Fixed-rate mortgages default when interest rates and inflation are …

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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...

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An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers

Gan, Li - 2008

This paper proposes an econometric model to identify unobserved consumer types in the credit market. Consumers choose different amounts of loan because of differences in their time or risk preferences (types). Thus, the unconditional probability of default is modeled using a mixture density...

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Ldc's Foreign Borrowing and Default Risk : an Empirical Investigation

Edwards, Sebastian - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the international financial community has taken into account the risk characteristics of borrowing less developed countries when granting loans. Specifically, this study analyzes the determinants of the spread between the interest rate charged to a...

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The Maturity Rat Race

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad - 2010

We develop a model of endogenous maturity structure for financial institutions that borrow from multiple creditors. We show that a maturity rat race can occur: an individual creditor can have an incentive to shorten the maturity of his own loan to the institution, allowing him to adjust his...

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