Fixed-income instruments whose price depends in large part upon judgments of the creditworthiness of a corporation or government.
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Multi Factor Credit Risk Models
I am working in the area of building credit risk models. Upto this point, the model I have been focused on using the Asymptotic Single Factor Model, more popularly known as Vasicek Single Factor ...
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Jumps in the evolution of observed negative interest rates related to changes in credit ratings?
If credit risk is to be considered completed integrated in the market prices (integrated credit and market risk), the change in the credit rate will trigger the change in the interest rate/market ...
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What is a standard credit default swap contract and where can I find spread data? What alternatives exist to judge creditworthiness?
I'm doing some work for a company and one of my tasks is to research credit default swaps on banks and to write a page about them explaining what they are and how they're used to evaluate the banks' ...
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What is an appropriate hedge ratio for hedging a credit instrument with equity of the same issuer?
Given a bond and a stock issued by the same issuer, what is the appropriate ratio of bond-to-stock one should hold in order to minimize the specific risk to that issuer? Equivalently, what is the ...
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How to define and measure liquidity or funding premium in credit markets?
Even companies with just a single non-callable corporate bond outstanding will often have CDS quote spreads that differ from the bond quote spread. During the 2008 crisis, there were dozens of cases ...
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How to estimate probability of default from bond prices?
How do you use bond prices/yields to infer probabilities of default? I would think of it as follows:
Create a relationship between default free (e.g., Germany) and defaultable (e.g., Greece) bond ...
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What is the unit of the Distance to Default measure?
I read in a book that the distance to default of a company is "2.978".
Can anyone please tell me what is the unit implied behind this measure? Are they "years" for instance?
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Credit Valuation Adjustments — computation issues
I'm currently working on my Masters project related to accelerating Greeks computations for CVA on mixed interest rate portfolios. I would like to know about the status of technology for CVA and its ...
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Quanto CDS modeling
What is the market standard for pricing quanto CDS (i.e. CDS which pays the contingent leg in different currency than the pricing leg)?
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Stochastic recovery rates
How do I model the randomness of recovery rate given default when pricing credit derivatives?
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What are the limitations of Gaussian copulas in respect to pricing credit derivatives?
The practice of using Gaussian copulas in modeling credit derivatives has come under a lot of criticism in the past few years. What are the major arguments against using the copula method in this ...
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Concentration risk in credit portfolio
How do you model concentration risk of credit portfolio in IRB/Basel II framework?
