default

(noun)

The condition of failing to meet an obligation.

Related Terms

  • bond
  • revolving credit agreement

Examples of default in the following topics:

  • Default Risk

    • Default risk is the risk that a bond issuer will default on any type of debt by failing to make payments which it is obligated to make.
    • Default risk (or credit risk) of a bond refers to the risk that a bond issuer will default on any type of debt by failing to make payments which it is obligated to do.
    • Credit default swaps are an instrument to protect against default risk.
    • This image shows the monthly prices of sovereign credit default swaps from January 2010 till September 2011 of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK (Greece is illustrated by blue line).
    • Higher credit default swap prices mean that investors perceive a higher risk of default.
  • Default Risk and Bond Price

    • Businesses and governments offer a variety of bonds that differ in default risk, liquidity, information costs, and taxes.
    • Default risk is the possibility a borrower will not repay the principal and/or interest on a loan.
    • For instance, the U.S. government has little risk of default, and investors call U.S. securities default-risk-free instruments.
    • On the other hand, a business has some risk of default.
    • As the default risk increases, then the risk premium increases too.
  • A Bank Failure

    • Credit risk is a risk that borrowers will default on their loans.
    • If a factory bankrupts and defaults on its commercial loan, the loan default does not harm the bank severely because the bank is earning income on the other loans.
    • Some borrowers apply for bank loans, when the borrowers know they will default.
    • If a borrower defaults on the loan, then the bank will seize the asset.
    • If the homeowner defaults on the mortgage, then the bank takes possession of the house.
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Partnerships

    • Partnerships have certain default characteristics relating to both the relationship between the individual partners and the relationship between the partnership and the outside world.
    • For example, if a partnership defaults on a payment to a creditor, the partners' personal assets are subject to attachment and liquidation to pay the creditor.
    • By default, profits are shared equally among the partners.
    • By default, a partnership will terminate upon the death, disability, or even withdrawal of any one partner.
    • By default, each general partner has an equal right to participate in the management and control of the business.
  • Types of Risk

    • Credit risk or default risk, is the risk that a borrower will default (or stop making payments).
    • When interest rates climbed 2 percentage points and the mortgage climbed to $2000, some owners had to default (stop making payments) .
    • When some investors defaulted, the world realized there were no mechanics around to fix these vehicles.
  • Boundless Subjects and Alignments

    • Boundless subjects each have an associated digital textbook with a default order, but can also be customized to align with a different textbook or course syllabus.
  • Taxes and Bond Prices

    • For example, the U.S. government bonds have a lower risk of default and higher liquidity than municipal bonds, whereas municipal bonds are the state and local government bonds.
    • Government taxes both the municipal and non-municipal bonds while the default risk, liquidity, and information costs are equivalent for both markets.
  • Government Financial Institutions

    • Department of Education guarantees the loan.If the student defaults, subsequently, the U.S.
    • Some people question a government's role in financing.When a government directly lends, the government squeezes the financial institutions out of the loan market.Furthermore, the federal government loan guarantees increase the problem of moral hazard.Financial institutions receiving the loan guarantees might not screen borrowers as much, lending to borrowers with a high default risk.For example, the effects of the 2007 Great Recession continue to linger in the U.S. economy, even in 2014.Recession caused mass layoffs and doubled the unemployment rate.Then the housing values continue to plummet while foreclosures continue soaring.Consequently, the U.S. government might be liable for trillions of dollars in loan guarantees and bailout of public corporations.We explain several examples below:
    • Department of Education, SallieMae, and commercial banks granted college student loans that had surpassed $1 trillion in 2012.Unfortunately, college graduates continue to enter an abysmal job market in 2013.Student-loan default rate hovers around 24%.College students, on average, owe approximately 24,000whilelawschoolgraduatesaccumulateloansexceedinga24,000 while law school graduates accumulate loans exceeding a 24,000whilelawschoolgraduatesaccumulateloansexceedinga100,000.Unfortunately, a stagnant economy would force the U.S. government to pay billions in loan guarantees.
  • Credit Ratings

    • It is an evaluation made by a credit rating agency of the debtor's ability to pay back the debt and the likelihood of default.
    • A poor credit rating indicates a credit rating agency's opinion that the company or government has a high risk of defaulting, based on the agency's analysis of the entity's history and analysis of long term economic prospects.
    • Results focus foremost on economics, specifically sovereign default risk and/or payment default risk for exporters (a.k.a. trade credit risk).
    • A short-term rating is a probability factor of an individual going into default within a year.
    • It is used by many mortgage lenders that use a risk-based system to determine the possibility that the borrower may default on financial obligations to the mortgage lender.
  • Securitization and the 2008 Financial Crisis

    • Banks relaxed their loan standards because they would not suffer from a mortgage default.
    • Banks used securitization to "cash" out the mortgages and "pushed" the default risk onto the investors.
    • If a borrower had defaulted on the mortgage, homes kept appreciating over time, so foreclosures did not harm banks and investors.
    • Unemployment rate soared to 10%, and households, especially the subprime market, began defaulting on their mortgages in record numbers.
    • Surge in mortgage defaults caused the investors to question ABS and CDOs, and they stopped investing in securitized debt.
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