On the Equivalence of the KMV and Maximum Likelihood Methods for Structural Credit Risk Models
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چکیده
Moody’s KMV method is a popular commercial implementation of the structural credit risk model pioneered by Merton (1974). It is an algorithm for estimating the unobserved asset value and the unknown parameters required for implementing such a model. This estimation method has found its way to the recent academic literature, but it has not yet been formally analyzed to assess its statistical properties. This paper fills this gap and shows that, in the context of Merton’s model, the KMV estimates are identical to maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) developed in Duan (1994). Unlike the MLE method, however, the KMV algorithm is silent about the distributional properties of the estimates and thus ill-suited for statistical inference. The KMV algorithm also cannot generate estimates for capital-structure specific parameters. In contrast, the MLE approach is flexible and can be readily applied to different structural credit risk models.
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