Spread Risk Premia in Corporate Credit Default Swap Markets

Credit and Capital Markets, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 571-610, 2014

44 Pages Posted: 18 Nov 2011 Last revised: 16 Mar 2016

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Oliver Entrop

University of Passau

Richard Schiemert

Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt

Marco Wilkens

University of Augsburg

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

The spread risk premium component of credit default swap (CDS) spreads represents a compensation demanded by protection sellers for future changes in CDS spreads caused by unpredictable fluctuations in the reference entity’s risk-neutral default intensity. This paper defines and estimates a measure of the spread risk premium component in CDS spreads of a sample of European investment-grade firms by using a stochastic intensity credit model. Our results show that, on average, investors demand a positive premium for such mark-to-market risks. After controlling for CDS market conditions, like liquidity and supply/demand effects, a panel data analysis of the estimated spread risk premia reveals among other things a significant positive impact of event risk captured by the overall stock market volatility and of investors’ appetite for exposure to credit markets as reflected by the overall CDS market.

Keywords: credit default swap, default risk premium, default event risk premium, spread risk premium, mark-to-market risk premium, stochastic intensity model

JEL Classification: G12, G13, G15

Suggested Citation

Entrop, Oliver and Schiemert, Richard and Wilkens, Marco, Spread Risk Premia in Corporate Credit Default Swap Markets (2014). Credit and Capital Markets, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 571-610, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1961197 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1961197

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