Credit Risk in Japan’s Corporate Bond Market doc

... NEW YORK IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Credit Risk in Japan’s Corporate Bond Market Frank Packer From the fall of 1997 to the spring of 1999, yield spreads in Japan’s corporate bond market increased ... growth, increased bankruptcies, and financial market turbulence helped bring about a decline in the credit quality of Japan’s outstanding bond issues. With lower...

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... looking bond market for pricing. If bond prices re‡ect information ab out future volatility, a pricing model should …t better when using a forward looking instead of a historical measure. To investigate ... the corporate bond market is forward looking, news about future volatility will be incorporated into current bond prices. Implied volatility calculated from bond prices is...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... covered bond market. Exploring the main issues involved in assessing the risk of covered bonds, the feature also documents significant divergences among the major rating agencies. An examination ... “Split ratings and the pricing of credit risk , Journal of Fixed Income, December, pp 72–82. Committee on the Global Financial System (2006): “Housing finance in the global financ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... the rating agencies provide two different sorts of ratings: • Issue-specific credit ratings and • Issuer credit ratings Issue-specific credit ratings are current opinions of the creditworthiness of ... Factors Source: S&P’s Corporate Ratings Criteria (2000) Business Risk Financial Risk Industry Characteristics Financial Characteristics Competitive Position Financial Policy Market...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... spot risk in Chapter 9 , forward risk in Chapter 10 , vanilla options risk in Chapter 11 , exotic options risk in Chapter 12 , credit risk in Chapter 13 , and counterparty credit risk in Chapter ... marking to market of illiquid positions, there is an increasing degree of rigor in the determination of reserves that arise due to model risk, in the limits u...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 18:47

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