2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11147-009-9029-2
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Distressed debt prices and recovery rate estimation

Abstract: This paper has two purposes. First, it uses distressed debt prices to estimate recovery rates at default. In this regard, estimates are obtained for three recovery rate models: recovery of face value, recovery of Treasury, and recovery of market value. We show that identifying the "economic" default date, as distinct from the recorded default date, is crucial to obtaining unbiased estimates. The economic default date is de…ned to be that date when the market prices the …rm's debt as if it has defaulted. An imp… Show more

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“…This concerns especially the notion of restructuring and auction mechanism. Thus, one should use historical data with caution, as emphasized in Guo et al [2008] or Verde et al [2009]. Let us also stress that as far as CDO tranche pricing is involved, we need to consider the joint distribution of default times and recovery rates across all names, which also includes the cross-sectional dependence between recovery rates, which is not usually addressed in the econometrics literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This concerns especially the notion of restructuring and auction mechanism. Thus, one should use historical data with caution, as emphasized in Guo et al [2008] or Verde et al [2009]. Let us also stress that as far as CDO tranche pricing is involved, we need to consider the joint distribution of default times and recovery rates across all names, which also includes the cross-sectional dependence between recovery rates, which is not usually addressed in the econometrics literature.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We derive the probability law of the economic and recorded default time. Numerical study reveals that our proposed models can better capture the features given by empirical study in Guo et al (2008) [5].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…A recent empirical study by Guo, Jarrow and Lin (2008) [5] on the time-series behavior of market debt prices around the recorded default date reveals the fact that the market anticipates the default event well before default is recorded. Their statistical analysis shows that the time span between the economic and recorded default dates has a significant impact on recovery rate estimates and is important to obtaining unbiased estimates for defaultable bond prices.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It is documented that these two notions of default do not necessarily coincide and the latter is typically later than the former (see Guo et al [8]). …”
Section: Remarkmentioning
confidence: 99%