Modeling municipal yields with (and without) bond insurance

We develop an intensity-based model of municipal yields, making simultaneous use of the credit default swap premiums of the insurers and both insured and uninsured municipal bond transactions. We estimate the model individually for 61 municipal issuers by exploiting the dramatic decline in credit qu...

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Main Authors: Chun, A.L (Author), Namvar, E. (Author), Ye, X. (Author), Yu, F. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences 2019
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