The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (May, 2008), pp. 1339-1369 (31 pages) We examine the accuracy and contribution of the Merton distance to default (DD) model, which is based on Merton's ...

Martin Zorn, President and Chief Operating Officer of Kamakura Corporation, is the author of this note. Leading researchers in finance have been near-unanimous in their conclusion that modern "reduced ...

This paper investigates the information in corporate credit ratings. If ratings are to be informative indicators of credit risk, they must reflect what a risk-averse investor cares about: both raw ...