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Debt dynamics and credit risk

Subject

Finance

Publishing details

Social Sciences Research Network

Authors / Editors

Feldhutter P;Schaefer S M

Biographies

Stephen Schaefer

Publication Year

2019

Abstract

The dynamics of debt are crucial in structural models of credit risk, and this paper provides a theoretical and empirical examination of these dynamics. Empirically, the future level of debt in US industrial firms is negatively related to current leverage. Furthermore, when a firm experiences a negative shock to it's equity, debt increases in the short run but declines in the long run. We incorporate these dynamics of debt into a structural model of credit risk and compare the term structure of default rates and credit spreads with those in existing models. The model improves the ability to capture the level of credit spreads particularly at short maturities

Keywords

Structural models; Debt levels; Default rates; Default boundary; Credit risk

Series

Social Sciences Research Network

Available on ECCH

No

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