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... asset value hits thedefault point, the firm is assumed todefaultThe model calculated a distance-todefault (DD) value for each firm at the end of each month The DD value is then mapped tothe ... over thechange in the 10-year Treasury bond yield, thechange in slope (defined as the difference between 10-year and 2-year Treasury bond yields), the convexity, thechange in leverage, thechange ... firms in the U.S in the Moody’s KMV default database Default rate is calculated as the number of defaults divided by the total number of firms recorded in the corresponding quarters Total observations...
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... Second, the Treasury yield (Ct) on the right hand side ofthe model in (14) has impounded the effect ofthe Treasury liquidity risk and so there is no need to add the liquidity innovations ofthe ... expressed in terms of present valueThevalueofthe municipal bond at time t is equal tothe sum of (10) and (11) Because we assume that the municipal bond is priced at par, the pricing formula ... issued between 1977 and 1998, 1,765 out of a total of 253,850 issues were defaulted, with a face valueof $24.9 billion out of a total of $375.5 billion (see Litvack and Rizzo, 1999) Thus, the...
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