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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970497703321

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

9786613820563

9781462374021

1462374026

9781452753171

1452753172

9781282392137

1282392131

9781452702544

1452702543

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

Business enterprises

Corporate Finance and Governance: General

Corporate Finance

Corporate sector

Credit default swap

Credit

Debt default

Debts, External

Exports and Imports

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

International economics

International Lending and Debt Problems

Investment & securities

Investments: Stocks

Monetary economics

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



Money and Monetary Policy

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Ownership & organization of enterprises

Pension Funds

Stocks

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.