Getting the Most Out of a Mandatory Subordinated Debt Requirement

Posted: 17 Feb 2004

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Rong Fan

Gifford Fong Associates

Joseph G. Haubrich

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

James B. Thomson

University of Akron

Peter H. Ritchken

Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance

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Abstract

Recent advances in asset pricing - the reduced-form approach to pricing risky debt and derivatives - are used to quantitatively evaluate several proposals for mandatory bank issue of subordinated debt. We find that credit spreads on both fixed- and floating-rate subordinated debt provide relatively clean signals of bank risk and are not unduly influenced by nonrisk factors. Fixed-rate debt with a put is unacceptable, but making the putable debt floating resolves most problems. Our approach also helps to clarify several different notions of "bank risk."

Keywords: Subordinated debt, banks, asset pricing

Suggested Citation

Fan, Rong and Haubrich, Joseph G. and Thomson, James B. and Ritchken, Peter H., Getting the Most Out of a Mandatory Subordinated Debt Requirement. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=502603

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