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...

The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...

Introduction -- Part I Fundamentals: Credit Derivatives and Markets -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Part II Static Models: One Factor Gaussian Copula Model -- Normal Inverse Gaussian Factor Copula Model -- Part III: Term-Structure Models -- Large Homogeneous Cell Approximation for Factor Copula...

This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...

The Business of Motion Picture Production and Distribution -- Co-Financing Film Projects with External Investors -- Principal Agent Problems in Co-Financing Relationships -- Empirical Investigation of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard -- Managerial Implications and Developments in the...

Modern Credit Risk Management: From Theory to Practice is a practical guide to the latest risk management tools and techniques applied in the market to assess and manage credit risks at bank, sovereign, corporate and structured finance level. It strongly advocates the importance of sound credit...

Grundlegung -- Die Kreditbeziehung der Banken zum Schuldner und ihre Rolle in der Unternehmenskrise -- Das Hypothesensystem zum strategischen Verhalten von Banken in der Schuldnerkrise auf Grundlage theoretischer Analysen -- Empirische Untersuchungen zu den Bankstrategien in der...

Anforderungen an die vermögensorientierte Messung und Steuerung von Kreditrisiken im variabel verzinslichen Kundengeschäft von Kreditgenossenschaften -- Empirischer Befund zur Handhabung variabel verzinslicher Kundengeschäfte im Rahmen der Messung und Steuerung von Kreditrisiken in...

1 Work-out: holistic active management of NPL -- 2 The bad bank and the good banking -- 3 The work-out value chain: permutations and clusters -- 4 The work-out unit: captive – deceptive -- 5 Developing a credit work out “alpha platform” -- 6 Developing an holistic and active credit work...

Introducing the fundamentals of retail credit risk management, this book provides a broad and applied investigation of the related modeling theory and methods, and explores the interconnections of risk management, by focusing on retail and the constant reference to the implications of the...