Renault, Olivier; Scaillet, Olivier - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003
n this paper we analyse recovery rates on defaulted bonds using the Standard and Poors / PMD database for the years 1981-1999. Due to the specific nature of the data (observations lie within 0 and 1), we must rely on nonstandard econometric techniques. The recovery rate density is estimated...