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As in many other developed economies, the farm sector in Israel has experienced considerable structural changes over the last few decades. These included a massive exit of self-employed farm operators, an increase in the size of remaining farms, and an increase in off-farm labor participation among the farm population.
The process of structural change has been accelerated by two major events: the debt crisis of 1985 and the opening of the country to foreign labor in the early 1990s. The effect of foreign workers on farm structure in Israel has been examined by Kislev (2003). In this paper I focus on the effects of the debt crisis and the subsequent legislation and implementation of a debt restructuring policy.
This paper provides a methodology for valuing credit default swaps when the payoff is contingent on default by a single reference entity and there is no counterparty default risk. The paper tests the sensitivity of credit default swap valuations to assumptions about the expected recovery rate. It also tests whether approximate no-arbitrage arguments give accurate valuations and provides an example of the application of the methodology to real data. In a companion paper entitled Valuing Credit Default Swaps II: Modeling Default Correlation, the analysis is extended to cover situations where the payoff is contingent on default by multiple reference entities and situations where there is counterparty default risk.
Credit default swaps have become increasingly popular in recent years. Their purpose is to allow credit risks to be traded and managed in much the same way as market risks. In 1998, trading in credit default swaps was facilitated by standard documentation produced by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
