Using quantile regression, this article examines default risk of emerging and speculative companies in Australia and the United States as compared to established investment entities. We use two datasets for each of the two countries, one speculative and one established. In the US we compare...

Whilst the Australian economy is widely considered to have fared better than many of its global counterparts during the Global Financial Crisis, there was nonetheless extreme volatility experienced in Australian financial markets. To understand the extent to which emerging Australia entities...

The severe bank stresses of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have underlined the importance of understanding and measuring extreme credit risk. The Australian economy is widely considered to have fared much better than the US and most other major world economies. This paper applies quantile...

The mining industry can be extremely volatile during times of economic downturn. We compare extreme risk in mining share portfolios from each of the worldís seven leading mining areas using Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) which measures those risks beyond traditional Value at Risk (VaR)...