Several top deals already closed, a still highly fragmented industry and strong pressure for furtherconsolidation following the financial crisis – renewable energy certainly has become a red-hot topic inM&A. Surveying 220 companies in the solar photovoltaic, utility and financial sector as...

Implied Base Correlations of Single-tranche CDOs on standardized Credit Indices such asthe iTraxx Europe have been used in the credit derivatives market for price communication.During the financial crisis, implied correlations have been quite volatile indicating thegrowing fraction of systematic...