Disastrous Defaults

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Christian Gourieroux

University of Toronto - Department of Economics; Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO); Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Alain Monfort

National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Maastricht University

Sarah Mouabbi

Banque de France

Jean-Paul Renne

University of Lausanne - School of Economics and Business Administration (HEC-Lausanne)

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Date Written: January 3, 2020

Abstract

We define a disastrous default as the default of a systemic entity, which has a negative effect on the economy and is contagious. Bringing macroeconomic structure to a no-arbitrage asset pricing framework, we exploit prices of disaster-exposed assets (credit and equity derivatives) to extract information on the expected (i) influence of a disastrous default on consumption and (ii) probability of a financial meltdown. Using European data, we find that the returns of disaster-exposed assets are consistent with a systemic default being followed by a 2% decrease in consumption. The recessionary influence of disastrous defaults implies that financial instruments whose payoffs are exposed to such credit events carry substantial risk premiums. We also produce systemic risk indicators based on the probability of observing a certain number of systemic defaults or a sharp drop of consumption.

Keywords: Disaster Risk, Systemic Entities, Default Dependencies, Credit Derivatives, Equilibrium Model

JEL Classification: E43, E44, E47, G01, G12

Suggested Citation

Gourieroux, Christian and Monfort, Alain and Mouabbi, Sarah and Renne, Jean-Paul, Disastrous Defaults (January 3, 2020). Paris December 2018 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3188085 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3188085

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