TY - JOUR T1 - Unfunded Pension Liabilities and the Corporate CDS Market JF - The Journal of Fixed Income SP - 30 LP - 46 DO - 10.3905/JFI.2010.19.3.030 VL - 19 IS - 3 AU - Ronan C Gallagher AU - Donal G McKillop Y1 - 2009/12/31 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/19/3/30.abstract N2 - This article examines the impact of pension deficits on default risk as measured by the premia on corporate credit default swaps (CDS). We find highly significant evidence that unfunded pension liabilities raise one- and five-year CDS premia. However, this relation is not homogeneous across countries, with the U.S. CDS market leading its European counterparts in the pricing of defined-benefit pension risk.TOPICS: Credit default swaps, pension funds, credit risk management, developed markets [US, Europe] ER -