Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50663 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Manchester Business School Working Paper No. 567
Publisher: 
The University of Manchester, Manchester Business School, Manchester
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyze the source and magnitude of marketing gains from selling structured debt securities at yields that reflect only their credit ratings, or specifically at yields on equivalently rated corporate bonds. We distinguish between credit ratings that are based on probabilities of default and ratings that are based on expected default losses. We show that subdividing a bond issued against given collateral into subordinated tranches can yield significant profits under the hypothesized pricing system. Increasing the systematic risk or reducing the total risk of the bond collateral increases the profits further. The marketing gain is generally increasing in the number of tranches and decreasing in the rating of the lowest rated tranche.
Subjects: 
credit ratings
collateralized debt obligations
expected loss rate
default probability
systemic risk
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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