Frailty Correlated Default

53 Pages Posted: 23 Dec 2008

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Darrell Duffie

Stanford University - Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Canadian Derivatives Institute

Guillaume Horel

Stanford University - Department of Statistics; Merrill Lynch & Co.

Leandro Saita

Independent

Andreas Eckner

Stanford University

Date Written: October 19, 2006

Abstract

We analyze portfolio credit risk in light of dynamic "frailty," by which the credit qualities of different firms depend on common unobservable time-varying default covariates. Frailty is estimated to have a large impact on estimated conditional mean default rates, above and beyond those predicted by observable factors, and to cause a large increase in the likelihood of large default losses for portfolios of U.S. corporate bonds during 1980-2004.

Keywords: correlated default, doubly stochastic, frailty, latent factor

JEL Classification: C11, C15, C41, E44, G33

Suggested Citation

Duffie, James Darrell and Horel, Guillaume and Saita, Leandro and Eckner, Andreas, Frailty Correlated Default (October 19, 2006). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 08-44, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1314771 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1314771

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Leandro Saita

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Andreas Eckner

Stanford University ( email )

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