Currency Mismatches and Corporate Default Risk: Modeling, Measurement, and Surveillance Applications

December 1, 2006

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Andre O Santos, and Jorge A Chan-Lau. Currency Mismatches and Corporate Default Risk: Modeling, Measurement, and Surveillance Applications, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed December 23, 2024

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Summary

Currency mismatches in corporate balance sheets have been singled out as an important factor underlying the severity of recent financial crises. We propose several structural models for measuring default risk for firms with currency mismatches in their asset/liability structure. The proposed models can be adapted to different exchange rate regimes, are analytically tractable, and can be estimated using available equity price and balance sheet data. The paper provides a detailed explanation on how to calibrate the models and discusses two applications to financial surveillance: the measurement of systematic risk in the corporate sector and the estimation of prudential leverage ratios consistent with regulatory capital ratios in the banking sector.

Subject: Asset valuation, Currencies, Currency mismatches, Debt default, Exchange rates

Keywords: Exchange rate, Foreign currency, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

30
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2006/269
Stock No:

WPIEA2006269
ISBN:

9781451865295
ISSN:

1018-5941

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