Credit spreads

FRM Handbook Ch 21: Measuring Default Risk From Market Prices

Book: Financial Risk Manager Handbook Plus Test Bank
Author: Philippe Jorion
ISBN: 978-0-470-90401-5


Chapter 21 flips the lens. Instead of counting defaults from rating agency history, you read credit risk from prices. Markets are forward-looking, update fast, and aggregate scattered information. They also embed risk premia, liquidity premia, and tax effects. Jorion walks through both the power and the traps.