RE: Corporate bond pricing within liquidity
Posted by
Marco Ottolino on
Aug 31, 2005; 5:04am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Corporate-bond-pricing-within-liquidity-tp4009p4012.html
Corporate bond pricing within liquidity
Hi Chiara,
we use to price illiquid bond this way: we
price & discount bonds at zero rates
from zero curve without spread adjustment.
Then we add spread (you can consider it as a fixed rate
bond with same maturity of the illiquid you want to price).
In order to compute the right credit spread you can
look at info provider prices on a bond similar in term of maturity and payout to
yours. On bloomberg with "DDIS" look at debt distribution of your issuer, find a
bond similar to yours then look at "ALLQ" prices, price this bond and find the
right spread in order to reach bid prices on ALLQ. This is the spread you have
to add to your illiquid bond. This is a proxy.
At least the real price (and so credit spread) for
illiquid bond is the price that who sold it is now able to pay to buy
it.
Hi,
I'm looking
for some smart solution to estimate and express illiquidity premium in term of a
zero-spread which can be added to the term structure of single issuer credit
spreads in order to price illiquid bond.
I will appreciate very much any indication this
question: papers, suggested readings, experience on this field.
Thank you
Chiara