Download or read book Recovery Risk in Credit Default Swap Premia written by Timo Schläfer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timo Schläfer exploits the fact that differently-ranking debt instruments of the same issuer face identical default risk but different default-conditional recovery rates. He shows that this allows isolating recovery risk without any of the rigid assumptions employed by priors and implements his approach using credit default swap data.