Recovery Risk in Credit Default Swap Premia

Schläfer, Timo

The finance literature looks at a number of factors to explain risk premia in corporate debt, such as liquidity effects, jump-to-default risk, and contagion risk. Stochastic recovery rates as a source of systematic risk have not received much attention so far, most likely due to the difficulties around decomposing the expected loss. Timo Schläfer exploits the fact that differently-ranking debt instruments of the same issuer face identical default risk but different default-conditional recovery rates. He shows that this allows isolating recovery risk without any of the rigid assumptions employed by priors and implements his approach using credit default swap data.

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Published by: Gabler Verlag

Publication Date: 2011-04-05

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783834928443

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-6666-7

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 112