Macroeconomic Impact on Expected Default Frequency

Per Åsberg Sommar () and Hovick Shahnazarian ()
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Per Åsberg Sommar: Financial Stability Department, Central Bank of Sweden, Postal: Sveriges Riksbank, SE-103 37 Stockholm, Sweden
Hovick Shahnazarian: Financial Stability Department, Central Bank of Sweden, Postal: Sveriges Riksbank, SE-103 37 Stockholm, Sweden

No 219, Working Paper Series from Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden)

Abstract: We use a vector error correction model to study the long-term relationship between aggregate expected default frequency and the macroeconomic development, i.e. CPI, industry production and short-term interest rate. The model is used to forecast the median expected default frequency of the corporate sector by conditioning on external forecasts of macroeconomic developments. Evaluations of the model show that it yields low forecast errors in terms of RMSE. The estimation results indicate that the interest rate has the strongest impact on expected default frequency among the included macroeconomic variables. The forecasts indicate that EDF will rise gradually over the forecast period.

Keywords: Expected Default Frequency; Macroeconomic Impact; Business cycle; vector error correction model; Financial stability; Financial and real economy interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C52 C53 G21 G33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2008-01-01
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