We employ a unique data set that tracks the changes of each lender's share commitment in each syndicated credit facility in each year to study the relationship between credit cuts and the borrowing firms' future performance. Overcoming the crucial data limitations in prior empirical studies of...

A financial distress of company should be able anticipated smartly by its management to rerun the business without having any loss due to business failure. Thus, we need a model which could provide an early signal to company the probability of financial distress so that remedial efforts can be...

Agency ratings and market-based measures of default risk are useful complements. Combining the two improves the prediction of defaults over the use of a single measure. While in-sample analysis suggests that one should give more weight to ratings as the horizon increases, or issuers become less...

In the economy expectations exercise enormous effects. Indeed, in finance prices and yields predominantly reflect current expectations about future cash flows and future interest rates. Change those expectations, prices and yields change as well. Change expectations radically enough, the change...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3247865" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3247865.Spanish Abstract: Este libro proporciona descripciones detalladas, que incluyen más de 550 fórmulas matemáticas, para más de 150 estrategias de trading para una gran cantidad...

When contemplating Chapter 11, the first step for many firms is to seek financing for their continuing operations in bankruptcy. Because such financing would otherwise be hard to find, the Bankruptcy Code authorizes debtors to offer sweeteners to debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders. These...

We leverage the new framework for collateralized exposure modelling in Andersen, Pykhtin, and Sokol (2016) to analyze credit risk on positions collateralized with both variation and initial margin. Special attention is paid to the dynamic BCBS-IOSCO uncleared margin rules soon to be mandated for...

Using official national-level survey data, we investigate the impact of a large debt waiver program in India on beneficiaries savings and consumption. We find that the household consumption level and pattern are unaffected by the waiver. Plausibly anticipating higher credit constraints in the...

Systemically important financial institutions are broadly considered to impose a risk to the entire economy upon failure; thus taxpayers act upon their failure, providing them with an implied insurance policy for ongoing liquidity. Yet taxpayers frequently provide de-facto liquidity insurance for...