How Sovereign Is Sovereign Credit Risk?

We study the nature of sovereign credit risk using an extensive set of sovereign CDS data. We find that the majority of sovereign credit risk can be linked to global factors. A single principal component accounts for 64 percent of the variation in sovereign credit spreads. Furthermore, sovereign cre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Longstaff, Francis A., Pan, Jun, Pederson, Lasse H., Singleton, Kenneth J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65581
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0161-9465