Modellierung der Abhängigkeiten zwischen Ausfall, Verlustrate und Forderungshöhe bei Ausfall mit Faktoren und Copulae -- Multivariate Erweiterung des Heckman-Schätzers, um der Stichprobenselektion seitens der Verlustrate und der Forderungshöhe gerecht zu werden -- Empirische Befunde zur...

Credit Risk Measurement in the Context of Basel II -- Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios and Its Treatment Under Basel II -- Model-Based Measurement of Name Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios -- Model-Based Measurement of Sector Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios -- Conclusion

Charakterisierung von Unternehmensanleihen -- Konzeption der empirischen Untersuchung und Datenaufbereitung -- Empirische Methodik: Bestimmung von impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten aus Zinsstrukturkurven -- Empirische Untersuchung: Analyse der impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten --...

The finance literature looks at a number of factors to explain risk premia in corporate debt, such as liquidity effects, jump-to-default risk, and contagion risk. Stochastic recovery rates as a source of systematic risk have not received much attention so far, most likely due to the difficulties...

Grundlagen -- Auswirkungen der Verwendung verrauschter PD-Schätzungen auf die Höhe des regulatorischen Kapitals gemäß Basel II -- Winner's Curse als mögliche Folge verrauschter PD-Schätzungen -- Auswirkungen einer Verrauschung der PD-Schätzungen auf die Ergebnisse der quantitativen...

This book introduces the “strike of default” (SOD) benchmark concept. The author determines the SOD through cross-sectional pricing between the credit market and the option market, considering the same underlying. The idea of the SOD is to combine the implied probability of default from both...

This book criticizes the fact that profitability measures derived from capital market models such as the Sharpe ratio and the reward-to-VaR ratio are proposed for loan portfolios, although it is not proven whether their risk-return trade-offs are optimal for banks. The authors demonstrate that...

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

This book introduces to basic and advanced methods for credit risk management. It covers classical debt instruments and modern financial markets products. The author describes not only standard rating and scoring methods like Classification Trees or Logistic Regression, but also less known...

Introduction to financial decision making -- An Overview of multiple criteria decision aid.- Banking management -- Credit Scoring -- Portfolio management.- Other applications of multi criteria analysis in finance -- Conclusions and future perspectives.