Corporate Credit Risk Premia

Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Darrell Duffie and Mark Ferguson

No 24213, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We measure credit risk premia - prices for bearing corporate default risk in excess of expected default losses - using Markit CDS and Moody’s Analytics EDF data. We find dramatic variation over time in credit risk premia, with peaks in 2002, during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, and in the second half of 2011. Even after normalizing these premia by expected default losses, median credit risk premia fluctuate over time by more than a factor of ten. Credit risk premia comove with macroeconomic indicators, even after controlling for variation in expected default losses, with higher premia per unit of expected loss during times of market-wide distress. Countercyclical variation of premia-to-expected-loss ratios is more pronounced for investment-grade issuers than for high-yield issuers.

JEL-codes: G12 G13 G22 G24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01
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Published as Antje Berndt & Rohan Douglas & Darrell Duffie & Mark Ferguson, 2018. "Corporate Credit Risk Premia," Review of Finance, vol 22(2), pages 419-454.

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