Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171949 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2016-58
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
There is a close link between prices of equity options and the default probability of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the option-implied default probability. We introduce a simple method to detect stocks with positive expected equity recovery by examining option prices and propose a method to extract the default probability from option prices that allows for positive equity recovery. We demonstrate possible applications of our methodology with examples that include large financial institutions in the United States during the 2007-09 subprime crisis.
Subjects: 
Asset pricing
Financial markets
Market structure and pricing
JEL: 
G13
G33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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