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Journal of Finance Vol. 37 No. 3 1982

Risk Assessments and Risk Premiums in the Eurodollar Market

Gershon Feder; Knud Ross1

1 World Bank

Abstract

Increasing awareness of the potential risks involved in lending to heavily indebted governments focuses attention on credit pricing in the Eurodollar market. This paper utilizes a recent survey of country‐by‐country risk assessments as perceived by lenders to show that a systematic relationship exists between these assessments and interest rates in the Euromarket. The relationship is derived from an underlying model described in the paper. The estimated parameters verify a number of hypotheses, providing insights on the loss rates lenders expect to incur in case of default.

DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb02217.x
Volume
37
Issue
3
Pages
679-691
Language
en
Sources
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