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| Title: | | Incorporating the dynamics of leverage into default prediction  |
| Authors: | | Löffler, Gunter Maurer, Alina |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SFB 649 discussion paper 2009,024 |
| Abstract: | | A firm's current leverage ratio is one of the core characteristics of credit quality used in statistical default prediction models. Based on the capital structure literature, which shows that leverage is mean-reverting to a target leverage, we forecast future leverage ratios and include them in the set of default risk drivers. The analysis is done with a discrete duration model. Out-of-sample analysis of default events two to five years ahead reveals that the discriminating power of the duration model increases substantially when leverage forecasts are included. We further document that credit ratings contain information beyond the one contained in standard variables but that this information is unrelated to forecasts of leverage ratios. |
| Subjects: | | default prediction discrete duration model leverage targeting mean reversion credit rating |
| JEL: | | G32 G33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SFB 649 Discussion Papers, HU Berlin
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