Grinderslev, Oliver Juhler; Kristiansen, Kristian Loft - 2017
We add discrete jumps in the time-to-maturity of a firm's debt to the model of Engle and Siriwardane (2015), such that … changes in equity volatility can be explained by the volatility of the firm's assets, its market leverage and investors …' perception of the time-to-maturity of the firm's debt. For banks a shortening of the time-to-maturity can be interpreted as …