Journal of Credit Risk

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Recovery swaps

Arthur M. Berd

ABSTRACT

We derive an arbitrage-free relationship between recovery swap rates, digital default swap spreads and conventional credit default swap (CDS) spreads, and argue that the fair forward recovery rate used in recovery swaps must contain a convexity premium over the expected recovery value.

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