Nonhedgeable risk and Credit Risk Pricing

arXiv1910.08641MaRDI QIDQ6327481FDOQ6327481

Authors: Juan Dong, Lyudmila Korobenko, A. Deniz Sezer 

Publication date: 18 October 2019

Abstract: We introduce a new model for pricing corporate bonds, which is a modification of the classical model of Merton. In this new model, we drop the liquidity assumption of the firm's asset value process, and assume that there is a liquidly traded asset in the market whose value is correlated with the firm's asset value, and all portfolios can be constructed using solely this asset and the money market account. We formulate the market price of the corporate bond as the product of the price of an optimal replicating portfolio and exp(- kappa x replication error), where kappa is a positive constant. The interpretation is that the representative investor accepts the price of the optimal replicating portfolio as a benchmark, however, requests compensation for the non-hedgeable risk. We show that if the replication error is measured relative to the firm's value, the resulting formula is arbitrage free with mild restrictions on the parameters.

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