Corporate Bonds

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Edwin J. Elton

New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

Martin J. Gruber

New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

Deepak Agrawal

New York University (NYU)

Christopher Mann

Columbia University, School of Professional Studies

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Date Written: October 2001

Abstract

The valuation of corporate debt is an important issue in asset pricing. While there has been an enormous amount of theoretical modeling of corporate bond prices, there has been relatively little empirical testing of these models 1 . Recently there has been extensive development of rating based reduced form models. These models take as a premise that bonds when grouped by ratings are homogeneous with respect to risk. For each risk group the models require estimates of several characteristics such as the spot yield curve, the default probabilities and the recovery rate. These estimates are then used to compute the theoretical price for each bond in the group. The purpose of this article is to examine the pricing of corporate bonds when bonds are grouped by ratings, and to investigate the ability of characteristics, in addition to bond ratings, to improve the performance of rating based models. Most of our testing will be conducted in models which are in the spirit of the theory developed by Duffie and Singleton (1997) and Duffie (1999).

Suggested Citation

Elton, Edwin J. and Gruber, Martin J. and Agrawal, Deepak and Mann, Christopher, Corporate Bonds (October 2001). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-01-051, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1294596

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Christopher Mann

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