Forecasting Credit Spread Volatility: Evidence from the Japanese Eurobond Market

Different approaches to forecasting the volatility associated with the credit spreads on Yen Eurobonds are investigated. The actual volatility, historical volatility and estimated conditional volatility on spreads derived from a regression-based model with a GARCH and ARMA specification are compared within an adaptation of Black’s (J. Finance, 31, 1976, 361–367) option-pricing model. Surprisingly, the regression forecast over a medium forecasting horizon suggests that historic volatility provides the better forecast. The implications of these results for volatility forecasting and credit spread modelling are also discussed.JEL Classification: C32; G15     

Credit derivatives and loan pricing

This paper examines the relation between the new markets for credit default swaps (CDS) and banks’ pricing of syndicated loans to US corporates. We find that changes in CDS spreads have a significantly positive coefficient and explain about 25% of subsequent monthly changes in aggregate loan spreads during 2000–2005. Moreover, when compared to traditional explanatory factors, they turn out to be the dominant determinant of loan spreads. In particular, they explain loan rates much better than same rated bonds. This suggests that CDS prices contain, beyond general credit risk, to a substantial extent information relevant for bank lending. We also find that, over time, new information from CDS markets is faster incorporated into loans, but information from other markets is not. Overall, our results indicate that the markets for CDS have gained an important role for banks.     

诚信助力脱贫 征信文化暖心——征信宣传工作助力“决战决胜脱贫攻坚”实践与启示

中国人民银行石家庄中心支行积极开展扶贫征信文化宣传活动,引导人们同心协力强化诚信意识,营造良好信用环境,助力脱贫攻坚和乡村振兴发展。扶贫征信文化宣传活动具有降低不良贷款水平、提升农户了解自身信用状况和维权意识、形成农村征信宣传网的优点。开展扶贫征信文化宣传活动具有重要启示:贫困地区征信文化建设需要制度机制,征信宣传路径创新能够更好服务群众,征信宣传产品差异化设计非常重要,宣传人员培训与传播技术更新具有良好效果,多维度宣传能够提升整体效果,宣传具有较强的规模效应。     

我国征信监管标准建设的国际借鉴及启示

我国征信行业快速发展,但征信监管标准的建设仍较缓慢滞后。选择欧、美等征信发达国家征信监管标准及规制建设实践经验,剖析监管标准出台的背景、需求、内容及作用,结合我国征信行业监管标准现实需求,建议以"征信通用原则"为框架,提升监管效率,着力保护征信主体权益,建立统一规范的监管指标体系并采用动态方式维护。     

金融机构征信宣传网络体系研究——以河北省为例

随着《征信业管理条例》和《社会信用体系建设规划纲要(2014—2020年)》的实施,亟待对征信宣传网络体系建设进行深入研究。从经济学角度对征信宣传工作分析表明,构建与现代市场经济相适应的征信文化与宣传机制将会产生巨大的经济效益。为构建金融机构征信宣传网络体系,应发挥中国人民银行征信部门在征信宣传中的主导作用,完善征信业规章制度,建立以核心价值观为引领的征信宣传网络体系长效机制,构建虚拟网络宣传平台,继续强化征信教育宣传。     

网贷模式的信用风险探析征信视角下 P2P

近年来,我国 P2P 网络贷款作为互联网金融创新模式获得爆发式增长,但同时在信息不对称、征信主体权益保护等方面存在的信用风险问题也日益突出。为促进 P2P 网络贷款等互联网金融的发展,应加强征信管理与服务,将 P2P 网贷平台纳入征信管理范畴,强化 P2P 网贷平台信用管理和平台资金流动监管,加大网贷平台信用信息保护力度。     

Credit Scoring and Mortgage Securitization: Implications for Mortgage Rates and Credit Availability

This article develops a model of the interactions between borrowers, originators, and a securitizer in primary and secondary mortgage markets. In the secondary market, the securitizer adds liquidity and plays a strategic game with mortgage originators. The securitizer sets the price at which it will purchase mortgages and the credit-score standard that qualifies a mortgage for purchase. We investigate two potential links between securitization and mortgage rates. First, we analyze whether a portion of the liquidity premium gets passed on to borrowers in the form of a lower mortgage rate. Somewhat surprisingly, we find very plausible conditions under which securitization fails to lower the mortgage rate. Second, and consistent with recent empirical results, we derive an inverse correlation between the volume of securitization and mortgage rates. However, the causation is reversed from the standard rendering. In our model, a decline in the mortgage rate causes increased securitization rather than the other way around.     

The Co‐movement of Credit Default Swap,Bond and Stock Markets: an Empirical Analysis

We analyse the relationship between credit default swap (CDS), bond and stock markets during 2000–2002. Focusing on the intertemporal co‐movement, we examine monthly, weekly and daily lead‐lag relationships in a vector autoregressive model and the adjustment between markets caused by cointegration. First, we find that stock returns lead CDS and bond spread changes. Second, CDS spread changes Granger cause bond spread changes for a higher number of firms than vice versa. Third, the CDS market is more sensitive to the stock market than the bond market and the strength of the co‐movement increases the lower the credit quality and the larger the bond issues. Finally, the CDS market contributes more to price discovery than the bond market and this effect is stronger for US than for European firms.     

社会信用体系建设是时代所需

社会信用体系是以信用为基础进行社会资源配置的创新制度安排。信用已经成为一种生产要素,这体现了一种社会公平。作为社会资源配置的新依据,信用资本比实体资本来得更直接,有时甚至可以一票否决。信用资源的有效利用与合理配置需要信用监管体系与市场机制共同作用。信用提高了现代生活的质量与效率,建立并发挥社会信用体系的作用已经成为现代市场经济发展和社会治理必不可少的内容。     

企业风险异质性、贷款利率与信贷违约风险——基于银行信贷微观数据

通过某股份制商业银行2010-2015年贷款数据,讨论不同风险贷款企业、贷款利率与信贷违约之间的关系.结果表明:贷款利率与贷款违约之间呈现U型关系;高风险等级企业与贷款违约之间正相关且显著;无论是高风险等级企业还是低风险等级企业与银行贷款利率之间均呈现负相关且显著,说明贷款利率的抑制现象依然存在.从参数估计值来看,低风险等级企业贷款利率要低于高风险等级企业;高风险企业与贷款利率交叉项与违约之间呈现负相关且显著,说明高风险企业通过贷款利率渠道确实可以降低信贷违约概率.     

Corporate Credit Spreads and the Sovereign Ceiling in Latin America

We exploit a panel of 72 US dollar-denominated bonds issued by Latin American publicly listed firms between 1996 and 2004, a period of regional financial crises, to answer the following three questions: (1) Is sovereign risk a statistically and economically significant determinant of the corporate credit spread, controlling for firm- and bond-specific characteristics? (2) If yes, do market participants apply the sovereign ceiling rule adopted by rating agencies in the pricing of our bond market data? And (3) how do market views compare with the rating agencies ceiling policy for each corporate bond? We find strong evidence of an economically and statistically significant effect of sovereign risk on corporate spreads across different panel econometric specifications and bonds. Moreover, markets do not apply the ceiling rule in 77–90% of the bonds we sample and these findings are consistent with rating agencies’ policies toward the latter for about 50% of the firms. These results are robust to the inclusion of firm- and bond-specific variables derived from the structural approach to credit risk and to the business cycle in each country.     

Pricing Sovereign Credit Risk of Poland: Evidence from the CDS Market

We analyze the market assessment of sovereign credit risk using a reduced-form model to price the credit default swap (CDS) spreads, thus enabling us to derive values for the probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) from the quotes of sovereign CDS contracts. We compare different specifications of the models allowing for both fixed and time-varying LGD, and we use these values to analyze the sovereign credit risk of Polish debt throughout the period of a global financial crisis. Our results suggest the presence of a low LGD and a relatively high PD during a recent financial crisis.     

Optimal Monetary Policy with Countercyclical Credit Spreads

We study optimal monetary policy in a New‐Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with a credit channel and relationship lending in banking. We show that borrowers' bank‐specific (deep) habits give rise to countercyclical credit spreads, which, in turn, make optimal monetary policy depart substantially from price stability, under both discretion and commitment. Our analysis shows that the welfare costs of setting monetary policy under discretion (with respect to the optimal Ramsey plan) and of using simpler suboptimal policy rules are strictly increasing in the magnitude of deep habits in credit markets and market power in banking.     

Market and Model Credit Default Swap Spreads: Mind the Gap!

Structural models of default establish a relation across the fair values of various asset classes (equity, bonds, credit derivatives) referring to the same company. In most circumstances such relation is verified in practice, as different financial assets tend to move in the same direction at similar speed. However, occasional deviations from the theoretical fair values occur, especially in times of financial turmoil. Understanding how the dynamics of the theoretical fair values of various assets compares to that of their market values is crucial to a number of market participants. This paper investigates whether a popular structural model, the CreditGrades approach proposed by Finger (2002) , Stamicar and Finger (2005) , succeeds in explaining the dynamic relation between equity/option variables and Credit Default Swap (CDS) premia at individual company level. We find that CDS model spreads display a significant correlation with CDS market spreads. However, the gap between the two is time varying and widens substantially in times of financial turbulence. The analysis of the gap dynamics reveals that this is partly due to episodes of decoupling between equity and credit markets, and partly due to shortcomings of the model. Finally, we observe that model spreads tend to predict market spreads.     

利率上浮及其与贷款基准利率的关系探究

对31个省市2005-2015年的1~3年期贷款利率上浮幅度进行测算,并通过统计分析与面板模型对其与贷款基准利率的关系进行探索性研究,结果显示:贷款利率上浮幅度与贷款基准利率负相关,贷款利率上浮幅度自2010年开始快速上升;不同地区的上浮幅度差异大,存在明显的区域异质性,中国人民银行通过基准利率调整进行宏观调控时,主要对北京市、上海市的贷款利率形成传递效应,对其它地区的影响相对较小;且随着时间的推移,基准利率政策的有效性越来越低.因此,为发挥基准利率政策的有效性,应在适度区间进行基准利率调节,加强中国人民银行对地方性商业银行的宏观审慎管理能力,同时与数量型货币政策相配合.     

Term structure modelling of defaultable bonds

In this paper we present a model of the development of the term structure of defaultable interest rates that is based on a multiple-defaults model. Instead of modelling a cash payoff in default we assume that defaulted debt is restructured and continues to be traded.The term structure of defaultable bond prices is represented in terms of defaultable forward rates similar to the Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) (Heath et al., 1992) approach, and conditions are given under which the dynamics of these rates are arbitrage-free. These conditions are a drift restriction that is closely related to the HJM drift restriction for risk-free bonds, and the restriction that the defaultable short rate must always be not below the risk-free short rate. In its most general version the model is set in a marked point process framework, to allow for jumps in the defaultable rates at times of default.Financial Assistance by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Sonderforschungsbereich 303, at the University of Bonn and the DAAD is gratefully acknowledged.I thank Pierre Mella-Barral, David Lando and David Webb for helpful conversations, and the participants of the FMG Conference on Defaultable Bonds (March 1997) in London and the QMF 97 conference in Cairns for helpful comments. All errors are of course my own.     

征信信息安全管理的国际经验借鉴

征信信息安全管理是征信业务管理的重心.目前,我国征信信息安全管理面临法律法规有待健全、征信信息供需失衡、征信系统接入机构管理水平有待提高、征信信息跨境流动风险日益显现等问题.借鉴日本和韩国征信信息安全管理的成功经验,为加强我国征信信息安全管理,应进一步完善法律法规,强化监督管理,增加征信产品与服务供给,推动金融科技在征...     

Currency-Induced Credit Risk in a Dollarized Economy

We analyze the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on corporate credit default in a dollarized economy. The application, before an exogenous exchange rate shock, of a new regulation concerning currency-induced credit risk (CICR) in the Peruvian banking system created natural conditions for a comparison between exposed and unexposed corporate borrowers. We use firm-level data to find that CICR and debt dollarization have opposite effects on credit risk. While CICR increases default, debt dollarization reduces it. Our results suggest that banks transfer exchange risk as a hedging mechanism by lending to such borrowers in dollars only.     

银行存贷款利差分析

在将利差分为事前利差和事后利差的基础上,本文全面分析了利差的决定因素,包括银行自身的因素、存贷款客户的因素和金融市场环境的因素等,并对中国银行业与世界不同国家和地区银行业的存贷款利差进行了比较。在中国,金融机构的最小利差为央行直接决定的最高存款利率和最低贷款利率所锁定,利差的决定外生于金融机构,也不反映金融机构的竞争力。为了发挥存贷款利差对我国商业银行经营行为的调节作用,我们应该推进利率市场化,促进银行竞争。同时,我们也应该认识到货币政策的重点是决定市场的资金成本而不是利差。