Modelling bonds and credit default swaps using a structural model with contagion

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This paper develops a two-dimensional structural framework for valuing credit default swaps and corporate bonds in the presence of default contagion. Modelling the values of related firms as correlated geometric Brownian motions with exponential default barriers, analytical formulae are obtained for both credit default swap spreads and corporate bond yields. The credit dependence structure is influenced by both a longer-term correlation structure as well as by the possibility of default contagion. In this way, the model is able to generate a diverse range of shapes for the term structure of credit spreads using realistic values for input parameters.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 669-680
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Quantitative Finance, 8(7)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsstatistik, Ökonometrie, Wirtschaftsinformatik ; Finanzwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Haworth, Helen ; Reisinger, Christoph ; Shaw, William
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Vereinigtes Königreich
• (when): 2008

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14697680701834614
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-222258
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST