Investing in Credit: How Good is Your Information?

Goldberg, Lisa R.

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Investing in Credit: How Good is Your Information?

Lisa R. Goldberg

University of California at Berkeley

Risk, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. S16-S18, January 2004

Abstract:
We describe a class of quantitative credit risk models that take account of the unavoidable gaps in investors' information. These incomplete information models are structural/reduced form hybrids. They combine the best features of both traditional approaches while avoiding many of their shortcomings.

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Keywords: Credit risk, incomplete information, default, recovery, risk premium, power curve

JEL Classification: G33, C52, C53, G12, G13, G14

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Date posted: February 28, 2004

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Goldberg, Lisa R., Investing in Credit: How Good is Your Information?. Risk, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. S16-S18, January 2004. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=508242

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Lisa R. Goldberg (Contact Author)

University of California at Berkeley ( email )

Department of Statistics
Evans Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States