A Structural Model of Contingent Bank Capital

Abstract

This paper develops a structural credit risk model of a bank that issues deposits, shareholders’ equity, and fi xed or floating coupon bonds in the form of contingentcapital or subordinated debt. The return on the bank’s assets follows a jump-diffusion process, and default-free interest rates are stochastic. The equilibrium pricing of the bank’s deposits, contingent capital, and shareholders’ equity is studied for various parameter values characterizing the bank’s risk and the contractual terms of its contingent capital. Allowing for the possibility of jumps in the bank’s asset value, as might occur during a financial crisis, has distinctive implications for valuing contingent capital. Credit spreads on contingent capital are higher the lower is the value of shareholders’ equity at which conversion occurs and the larger is the conversion discount from the bond’s par value. The effect of requiring a decline in a financial stock price index for conversion (dual price trigger) is to make contingent capital more similar to non-convertible subordinated debt.

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