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Review of Financial Studies Vol. 12 No. 4 1999

Modeling Term Structures of Defaultable Bonds

Darrell Duffie; Kenneth J. Singleton

Stanford University

Abstract

This article presents convenient reduced-form models of the valuation of contingent claims subject to default risk, focusing on applications to the term structure of interest rates for corporate or sovereign bonds. Examples include the valuation of a credit-spread option.

DOI
10.1093/rfs/12.4.687
Volume
12
Issue
4
Pages
687-720
Language
en
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