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Do Credit Spreads Reflect Stationary Leverage Ratios?

Collin-Dufresne, Pierre  
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Goldstein, Robert S.
2001
The Journal of Finance

Most structural models of default preclude the firm from altering its capital structure. In practice, firms adjust outstanding debt levels in response to changes in firm value, thus generating mean-reverting leverage ratios. We propose a structural model of default with stochastic interest rates that captures this mean reversion. Our model generates credit spreads that are larger for low-leverage firms, and less sensitive to changes in firm value, both of which are more consistent with empirical findings than predictions of extant models. Further, the term structure of credit spreads can be upward sloping for speculative-grade debt, consistent with recent empirical findings

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research article
DOI
10.1111/0022-1082.00395
Author(s)
Collin-Dufresne, Pierre  
Goldstein, Robert S.
Date Issued

2001

Published in
The Journal of Finance
Volume

56

Issue

5

Start page

1929

End page

1957

Subjects

OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE

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TERM STRUCTURE

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CORPORATE-DEBT

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BOND COVENANTS

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VALUATION

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NON-REVIEWED

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SFI-PCD  
Available on Infoscience
August 7, 2013
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