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Default risk premium and asset prices

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Abstract

We estimate a standard structural model of credit risk to draw insights about the premium demanded by investors for bearing default risk, using data on credit default swaps and market capitalization. We pin down the daily market value of assets for a set of non-financial firms and uncover cross-sectional heterogeneity in terms of the magnitude and time variation of the premium. By exploring the link between asset and default risk premia, we show that this heterogeneity closely depends on the relationship between the firm-specific market value of the assets and the business cycle.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101014
JournalJournal of Financial Stability
Volume60
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • Assets value
  • Business cycle
  • Default risk
  • Risk premium
  • Structural model

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