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This paper shows that forward default intensities in the Black and Cox (1976) model of corporate default can be expressed in terms of the Mills Ratio (Mills, 1926). The behavior of the forward default intensity and hence the survivorship functions then follows from inequalities that are...
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bond covenants, we document that four out of 24 restrictions are associated with significantly higher bankruptcy risk. The … bankruptcy, or within-creditor conflicts. Firms that use In-House Counsel to help structure their bond issue and those that use … use of these Default Indicating covenants is associated with higher bond and CDS spreads. Overall, the results help …
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Financial analyses such as valuation, solvency and capital adequacy play a crucial role in bankruptcy. Over the course of the 20th century, methods of financial analysis in bankruptcy have shifted from earnings multiples to discounted cash flow (DCF) and recently to market-based approaches such...
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We examine bond covenants of 29 New Zealand bond issues prior to the 2008 securities market act. Results from the study … compensated for holding the additional risk. We propose an alternative bond protection assessment framework that directly assesses … the level of protections, restrictive covenants provide to bond holders. We calculate the covenant quality score for the …
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spreads as it modifies both the level and shape of the curves. When a bond portfolio is considered, the presence of dependence …
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We examine bond covenants of 29 New Zealand bond issues between 2001 and 2007. Results from the study indicate that …
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This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...
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,217, recovered cases increase by 6,468, and the recovery rate increases by 6.9% following the issuance of a corporate pandemic bond …
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We estimate the default probabilities implicit in the transaction prices of a new type of call provision, the make whole call. The new issuance of make whole callable bonds has supplanted that of traditional callable bonds and noncallable bonds. Make whole callable bonds have strike prices that...
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