Milidonis, Andreas; Chisholm, Kevin - In: Risks : open access journal 12 (2024) 3, pp. 1-33
We develop the regime-switching default risk (RSDR) model as a generalization of Merton's default risk (MDR) model. The RSDR model supports an expanded range of asset probability density functions. First, we show using simulation that the RSDR model incorporates sudden changes in asset values...