Prior research has addressed the question of whether certain events cause a transfer of wealth between stockholders and bondholders but does not control for the events' impacts on firms' credit risk. This may explain why many studies fail to identify wealth transfers. By employing announcements...

Structured products like collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) tend to offer significantly higher yield spreads than corporate bonds with the same rating. At the same time, empirical evidence does not indicate that this higher yield is reduced by higher default losses of CLOs. The evidence thus...

We document how counterparty credit risk is priced in FX OTC derivatives. We employ a novel data-set of dealer-specific bid-ask quotes to analyze risk pricing using the decoupling of Swiss franc from the euro as an exogenous shock. First, the removal of the peg increased both the level of...

The collapse of the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market brought attention to the soundness of the involved banks. We infer equity price reaction from rating announcements that are either negative rating outlooks or rating downgrades of CDO. To explain the market reactions, we consider...