Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7361758 | Journal of Financial Economics | 2018 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
We study the sources of corporate default clustering in the United States. We reject the hypothesis that firms' default times are correlated only because their conditional default rates depend on observable and latent systematic factors. By contrast, we find strong evidence that contagion, through which the default by one firm has a direct impact on the health of other firms, is a significant clustering source. The amount of clustering that cannot be explained by contagion and firms' exposure to observable and latent systematic factors is insignificant. Our results have important implications for the pricing and management of correlated default risk.
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Authors
S Azizpour, K. Giesecke, G. Schwenkler,