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The Merton model, [1] developed by Robert C. Merton in 1974, is a widely used "structural" credit risk model. Analysts and investors utilize the Merton model to understand how capable a company is at meeting financial obligations, servicing its debt, and weighing the general possibility that it will go into credit default.
He starts with a known initial wealth W 0 (which may include the present value of wage income). At time t he must choose what amount of his wealth to consume, c t, and what fraction of wealth to invest in a stock portfolio, π t (the remaining fraction 1 − π t being invested in the risk-free asset). The objective is
However, if we move to a world where there are taxes, when the interest on debt is tax-deductible, and ignoring other frictions, the value of the company increases in proportion to the amount of debt used. [5] The additional value equals the total discounted value of future taxes saved by issuing debt instead of equity.
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For example, assume a party buys $100 of a 10-year fixed-rate treasury bond and enters into a fixed-for-floating 10-year interest rate swap to convert the payments to floating rate. The derivative is off-balance sheet, so it is ignored for accounting leverage. Accounting leverage is therefore 1 to 1.
At the micro-economic level, deleveraging refers to the reduction of the leverage ratio, or the percentage of debt in the balance sheet of a single economic entity, such as a household or a firm. It is the opposite of leveraging , which is the practice of borrowing money to acquire assets and multiply gains and losses.
D/C = D / D+E = D/E / 1 + D/E The debt-to-total assets (D/A) is defined as D/A = total liabilities / total assets = debt / debt + equity + (non-financial liabilities) It is a problematic measure of leverage, because an increase in non-financial liabilities reduces this ratio. [3] Nevertheless, it is in common use.