Technical paper
A Merton approach to transfer risk
Transfer risk is the risk that debtors in a country are unable to ensure timely payments of foreign currency debt service due to transfer or exchange restrictions, or a general lack of foreign currency. Although this risk is not extensively addressed in…
Problems & Solutions
There are many interesting issues surrounding credit risk that are of both practical and academic interest. The Problems and Solutions section aims to engage readers in active discussion and debate of such issues. Readers are encouraged to post questions…
The 'benefits' of smoothing
Cutting Edge: Economic Capital
Co-monotonic default quote paths for basket evaluation
Cutting edge: Credit portfolio risk
Thinking positively
Cutting edge: Low default portfolios
Not a stock answer
Cutting edge: Low default portfolios
Hybrid equity-credit modelling
Cutting edge: Hybrid models
Risk-adjusted planning
An energy firm’s economic performance can be highly affected by incorrect valuation of implied economic risk. For this reason it is essential to provide management with the correct risk assessment tools. Here we propose a way of introducing risk…
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Quant analysis
Manor Park
Quant analysis
Capitalia
Quant analysis
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Crédit Agricole
Quant analysis
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit default swaps
Modelling counterparty credit exposure for credit derivatives is more complicated than for non-credit products, since the reference credit and counterparty can exhibit positive default correlation. Here, Christian Hille, John Ring and Hideki Shimamoto…
The two-factor Black-Litterman model
Over the years, an increasing number of practitioners have been using the Black-Littermanmodel to make tactical asset allocation decisions. The model generates more stable resultsthan classical mean-variance optimisation and incorporates return forecasts…
Bond execution models
While research on the optimal execution of equity trading has become popular, a study of this kind has not yet been done with regard to the bond market. In this article, Koichi Miyazaki presents a bond execution model that incorporates the strong…
Equity market impact
Cutting edge: Quantitative trading