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A Merton Model Approach to Assessing the Default Risk of UK Public Companies

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Tudela, Merxe (Bank of England)
Garry Young

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This paper shows how a Merton-model approach can be used to develop measures of the probability of failure of quoted UK companies. Probability estimates are constructed for a group of failed companies and their properties as leading indicators of failure assessed. Probability estimates of failure for a control group of surviving companies are also constructed. These are used in Probit-regressions to evaluate the information content of the Merton-based estimates relative to information available in company accounts. The paper shows that there is much useful information in the Merton-style estimates.

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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 207.

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Keywords: Merton models; corporate failure; implied default probabilities;

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G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing
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