Setting the Stage -- Fixed Income - Strategic Asset Allocation -- Fixed Income - Tactial Asset Allocation -- Incumbent Active Fixed Income Managers -- Security Selection - Rate Sensitive Assets -- Security Selection - Credit Sensitive Assets -- Security Selection - Emerging Markets (Hard...

In this paper, we test the impact of uncertainty in asset measurement on credit term-structure. The theory of Duffie and Lando (2001) suggests that the inability of creditors to assess asset values precisely will support the existence of non-zero short term credit spreads. Developments in recent...

Previous analysis of equilibrium asset prices often ignore the effects of delegated portfolio management and those of delegated portfolio management problems often ignore information and equilibrium asset prices. This paper develops a dynamic model that simultaneously considers optimal...

In this paper, we empirically compare two structural models (basic Merton and Vasicek-Kealhofer (VK)) and one reduced-form model (Hull-White (HW)) of credit risk. We propose here that two useful purposes for credit models are default discrimination and relative value analysis. We test the...

Counterparty credit risk has become one of the highest-profile risks facing participants in the financial markets. Despite this, relatively little is known about how counterparty credit risk is actually priced. We examine this issue using an extensive proprietary data set of contemporaneous CDS...