Bond Pricing with Default Risk

57 Pages Posted: 1 Nov 2004

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Jason C. Hsu

Research Affiliates; Rayliant Global Advisors; University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business

Jesus Saa-Requejo

Vega Asset Management LLC

Pedro Santa-Clara

Nova School of Business and Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: February 2004

Abstract

We price corporate debt from a structural model of firm default. We assume that the capital market brings about efficient firm default when the continuation value of the firm falls below the value it would have after bankruptcy restructuring. This characterization of default makes the model more tractable and parsimonious than the existing structural models. The model can be applied in conjunction with a broad range of default-free interest rate models to price corporate bonds. Closed-form corporate bond prices are derived for various parametric examples. The term structures of yield spreads and durations predicted by our model are consistent with the empirical literature. We illustrate the empirical performance of the model by pricing selected corporate bonds with varied credit ratings.

Keywords: Bond pricing, default risk, term structure of yield spread

Suggested Citation

Hsu, Jason C. and Hsu, Jason C. and Saa-Requejo, Jesus and Santa-Clara, Pedro, Bond Pricing with Default Risk (February 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=611401 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.611401

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