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- Title
Credit Rating and Pricing: Poles Apart.
- Authors
Blöchlinger, Andreas
- Abstract
Corporate credit ratings remove the information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers to find an equilibrium price. Structured finance ratings, however, are informationally insufficient because the systematic risk of equally rated assets can vary substantially. As I demonstrate in a Monte Carlo analysis, highly-rated structured finance bonds can exhibit far higher non-linear systematic risks than lowly-rated corporate bonds. I value credit instruments under a four-moment CAPM, between and within some markets there is no one-to-one relation between expected loss (rating) and credit spread (pricing). The linear CAPM beta is insufficient, buyers and sellers need also the same information on non-linear risk to have an equilibrium.
- Subjects
CREDIT ratings; ASSET backed financing; RISK aversion; CAPITAL assets pricing model; CORPORATE bonds
- Publication
Journal of Risk & Financial Management, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1911-8066
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jrfm11020027