Assume that the default probability for a company in a year, conditional on no earlier defaults is

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Assume that the default probability for a company in a year, conditional on no earlier defaults is and the recovery rate is R. The risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum. Default always occurs halfway through a year.

The spread for a 5-year plain vanilla CDS where payments are made annually is 120 basis points and the spread for a 5-year binary CDS where payments are made annually is 160 basis points. Estimate R and

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