The markets dealing with
financial products related to credit risk have been booming over the last years. This has
encouraged practitioners and academics at the same time to consider and develop
sophisticated models for credit risk pricing. This book gives a deep insight into the
latest basic and advanced credit risk modelling techniques covering not only the standard
structural, reduced form and hybrid approaches but also showing how these methods can be
applied to practice. Therefore, questions like the choice of an appropriate model,
suitable parameter estimation and calibration techniques as well as back-testing issues
are addressed. The book covers a broad range of financial instruments such as all kinds of
defaultable fixed and floating rate debt, credit derivatives and collateralised debt
obligations. In addition, there is a special emphasis on the discussion of data issues
like the estimation of consistent transition matrices or the modelling of recovery rates.
A lot of market data and latest credit market information completes the book. This
volume will be a valuable source for the financial community involved in pricing
credit linked financial instruments. In addition, the book can be used by students and
academics to get a comprehensive overview of the most important credit risk modelling
issues.
Written for:
Researchers, practitioners, graduate students
Keywords:
bond portfolio optimisation
collateralised debt
obligations
credit derivatives
credit risk models
defaultable financial instruments
Table of contents
Introduction.
Modelling Credit Risk
Factors.
Pricing Corporate and
Sovereign Bonds.
Correlated Defaults.
Pricing Credit Derivatives.
Collateralized Debt
Obligations.
Case Study: A Three-Factor
Model for Pricing Credit Linked Financial Instruments.
Some Definitions of S&P;
Technical Proofs; Pricing of Credit Derivatives: Extensions.
450 pages