Credit rating and pricing: Poles apart

Artikel

Corporate credit ratings remove the information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers to find an equilibrium price. Structured finance ratings, however, are informationally insufficient because the systematic risk of equally rated assets can vary substantially. As I demonstrate in a Monte Carlo analysis, highly-rated structured finance bonds can exhibit far higher non-linear systematic risks than lowly-rated corporate bonds. I value credit instruments under a four-moment CAPM, between and within some markets there is no one-to-one relation between expected loss (rating) and credit spread (pricing). The linear CAPM beta is insufficient, buyers and sellers need also the same information on non-linear risk to have an equilibrium.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of Risk and Financial Management ; ISSN: 1911-8074 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1-26 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: asset backed security (ABS) ; contingent convertible bond (CoCo) ; standard risk aversion ; capital asset pricing model (CAPM) ; UBS crisis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Blöchlinger, Andreas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/jrfm11020027
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/238874
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET