Workshop on 'The pricing of credit risk'

Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 September 2004

Programme

Opening remarks (William White, BIS)  (PDF, 21 kb)

Paper 1: The credit risk component in corporate spreads and swap spreads

Authors:David Lando, Copenhagen Business School (joint with Peter Feldhütter)
Discussants:Tony Rodrigues, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Etienne Varloot, Citigroup
Paper 2: Default and recovery implicit in the term structure of sovereign CDS spreads

Authors:Ken Singleton, Stanford University (joint with Jun Pan)
Discussants:Naohiko Baba, Bank of Japan

Richard Cantor, Moody's
Paper 3: Valuation of a CDO and a n-th to default CDS without Monte Carlo simulation

Authors:John Hull, University of Toronto (joint with Alan White)
Discussants:Michael Gibson, Federal Reserve Board

Dominic O'Kane, Lehman Brothers
Paper 4: The pricing of unexpected credit losses

Authors:Jeffery Amato and Eli Remolona, Bank for International Settlements
Discussants:Jean Helwege, University of Arizona

Ken Singleton, Stanford University
Paper 5: Measuring default risk premia from default swap rates and EDFs

Authors:Darrell Duffie, Stanford University (joint with Antje Berndt, Rohan Douglas, Mark Ferguson and David Schranz)
Discussants:Peter Hordahl, European Central Bank

Frank Packer, Bank for International Settlements
Paper 6: On the relation between credit spread puzzles and the equity premium puzzle

Authors:Pierre Collin-Dufresne, UC Berkeley (joint with Long Chen and Bob Goldstein)
Discussants:Monika Piazzesi, University of Chicago

Jun Yang, Bank of Canada
Paper 7: Explaining the level of credit spreads: option-implied jump risk premia in a firm value model

Authors:Joost Driessen, University of Amsterdam (joint with Martijn Cremers, Pascal Maenhout and David Weinbaum)
Discussants:Varqa Khadem, Lehman Brothers

Garry Young, Bank of England