This study provides a rigorous empirical comparison of structural and reduced-formcredit risk frameworks. As major difference we focus on the discriminative modelingof the default time. In contrast to the previous literature, we calibrate both approaches to the same data set, apply comparable...

This paper investigates the dynamics of the term structure of bond market illiquidity premia. We analyze the comovement of short-, medium-, and long-termilliquidity premia and identify economic factors determining them. Our resultsshow that the term structure of illiquidity premia is U-shaped on...

In this paper, we explore the stochastic nature of implied recovery rates. We exploit the fact that differently-ranking debt instruments of the same issuer face identical default risk but different defaultconditionalrecovery rates. Specifically, we extract information from Credit Default Swaps...