Xinlei Zhao
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Xinlei Zhao is a Lead Expert in the Credit Risk Analysis Division within the Economics Department of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Dr. Zhao's current research interests include credit risk modeling, asset pricing, and corporate finance. Her fields of interest include credit risk modeling, asset pricing, and corporate finance. Before joining the OCC, Dr. Zhao was an associate professor of finance at the Kent State University. She holds a doctorate in finance from the University of Toronto.
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Articles by Xinlei Zhao
Risks of long-term auto loans
The authors investigate the borrower risk factors, delinquency rates, yield curves, and interest rates of long-term auto loans.
Modeling loss given default regressions
The authors investigate the puzzle in the literature that various parametric loss given default (LGD) statistical models perform similarly, by comparing their performance in a simulation framework.
Further investigation of parametric loss given default modeling
The authors conduct a comprehensive study of some parametric models that are designed to fit the unusual bounded and bimodal distribution of loss given default (LGD).