The structure of credit risk: spread volatility and ratings transitions

Ratings-based models are widely used by firms making their own capital decisions and by policy-makers designing regulatory capital requirements. By ignoring fluctuations in spreads for given rating categories, the currentgeneration of ratings-based models leaves out a potentially important dimension of risk. This article extends standard ratings-based credit risk models to include spread risk.

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