What drives corporate default risk premia? Evidence from the CDS market

This paper studies the evolution of the default risk premia for European firms during the years surrounding the recent credit crisis. We employ the information embedded in Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Moody’s KMV EDF default probabilities to analyze the common factors driving this risk premia. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Díaz, A. (author)
Other Authors: Groba, J. (author), Serrano, P. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/1409
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/1409