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spreads, we use government bond yield data which provide a longer data history. We show that for the more recent sample period … 2008--2015, joint default probabilities based on CDS and bond yield data yield similar results. For the period 1987 …-2008, only the bond yield data can be used to shed light on European sovereign systemic stress. We also show that simple averages …
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switching probabilities and the within-regime volatility of most banks. The within-regime dynamics of the equicorrelation seem …
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switching probabilities and the within-regime volatility of most banks. The within-regime dynamics of the equicorrelation seem …
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The CDS-bond basis quantifies the difference in risk premia between credit default swap (CDS) and bond markets. It is …
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score dynamics. The new test generalizes the ARCH-LM test of Engle (1982) to settings beyond time-varying volatility and …
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We model 1927-1997 U.S. business failure rates using a time series approach based on unobserved components. Clear evidence is found of cyclical behavior in default rates. The cycle has a period of around 10 years. We also detect longer term movements in default probabilities and default...
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Various economic theories are available to explain the existence of credit and default cycles. There remains empirical ambiguity, however, as to whether or these cycles coincide. Recent papers_new suggest by their empirical research set-up that they do, or at least that defaults and credit...
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