Gordy, Michael B.; Szerszen, Pawel J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
stochastic time-change. Our Bayesian MCMC estimation method overcomes nonlinearity in the measurement equation and state … time-change offers modest benefit in fitting the cross-section of CDS spreads at each point in time, but very large … stochastic volatility in this market. Relative to the widely-used CIR model for the default intensity, we find that stochastic …