Recovery Risk in Credit Default Swap Premia

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.

Dr. Timo Schläfer completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marliese Uhrig-Homburg at the Chair of Financial Engineering and Derivatives at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He works in the investment banking industry.