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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788521903321

Autore

Chan-Lau Jorge

Titolo

Is Systematic Default Risk Priced in Equity Returns? A Cross-Sectional Analysis Using Credit Derivatives Prices / / Jorge Chan-Lau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-7402-6

1-4527-5317-2

1-282-39213-1

9786613820563

1-4527-0254-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (18 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Corporations - Valuation - Econometric models

Credit derivatives - Prices - Econometric models

Default (Finance) - Econometric models

Risk - Econometric models

Corporate Finance

Exports and Imports

Investments: Stocks

Money and Monetary Policy

International Lending and Debt Problems

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Corporate Finance and Governance: General

International economics

Monetary economics

Investment & securities

Ownership & organization of enterprises

Debt default

Stocks

Credit default swap

Credit

Corporate sector

Debts, External



Business enterprises

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. EQUITY RETURNS AND SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK""; ""III. EXTRACTING SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK MEASURES FROM CREDIT DERIVATIVES PRICES""; ""IV. IS SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK PRICED IN EQUITY RETURNS?""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper finds that systematic default risk, or the event of widespread defaults in the corporate sector, is an important determinant of equity returns. Moreover, the market price of systematic default risk is one order of magnitude higher than the market price of other risk factors. In contrast to studies by Fama and French (1993, 1996 ) and Vassalou and Xing (2004), this paper uses a market-based measure of systematic default risk. The measure is constructed using price information from credit derivatives prices, namely the spreads of standardized single-tranche collateralized debt obligations on credit derivatives indices.