Model risk as part of the operational risk is a serious problem for financial institutions.As the pricing of derivatives as well as the computation of the marketor credit risk of an institution depend on statistical models the application of awrong model can lead to a serious over- or...

Lending is associated with credit risk. Modelling the loss stochastically,the cost of credit risk is the expected loss. In credit business the probabilitythat the debtor will default in payments within one year, often is the onlyreliable quantitative parameter. Modelling the time to default as...