A compound option approach to model the interrelation between banking crises and country defaults: The case of Hungary 2008

Dominik Maltritz

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010, vol. 34, issue 12, 3025-3036

Abstract: We analyze the Hungarian financial crisis of 2008 in a stochastic framework that advances structural credit risk models for country defaults: by applying compound option theory we consider payments for bailing-out the banking sector together with debt service payments in a joint crisis model. We estimate the model parameters by applying the time series maximum-likelihood approach of Duan (1994) on yield spreads of Hungarian Bonds. We find that difficulties in acquiring funds for debt servicing in combination with high outstanding debt triggered the crisis, rather than problems in the domestic banking sector. The estimated crisis probabilities dramatically rise during 2008.

Keywords: Banking; crises; Country; defaults; Structural; credit; risk; model; Crises; dependencies; Compound; option (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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