Recent developments in credit-related assets such as credit default swaps (CDS) have led to a great deal of academic work. Interestingly, much of the work on the CDS market focuses on the shortcomings of these market prices as sources of credit information rather than their strengths. Longstaff, Mithal, and Neis (2005) find that a substantial fraction of quoted corporate yield spreads (through the CDS market) can only be explained by an appeal to non-credit-related, or “liquidity” components. Jarrow (2012) describes how inferring default rates from CDS quotes is fraught with theoretical issues in addition to the empirical inadequacies. Finally, Campbell, Hilscher, and Szilagyi (2008) take issues with the efficiency of prices outside of the CDS market. They illustrate how one can use a reduced form framework to identify observably distressed firms, and then demonstrate that these distressed firms have lower-than-average returns, even after accounting for typical factors such as volatility and size.