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The current financial market crisis has impressively demonstrated the importance of aneffective credit risk management for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and thevaluation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised as a result of the crisis. Over the pastdecade, credit...
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The parameter loss given default (LGD) of loans plays a crucial role for risk-based decision making of banks including risk-adjusted pricing. Depending on the quality of the estimation of LGDs, banks can gain significant competitive advantage. For bank loans, the estimation is usually based on...
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Internal credit ratings are expected to gain in importance because of their potential use for determining regulatory capital adequacy and banks increasing focus on the risk-return profile in commercial lending. Whereas the eligibility of financial factors as inputs for internal credit ratings is...
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In this paper we propose a framework for measuring and stress testing the systemic risk of a group of major financial institutions. The systemic risk is measured by the price of insurance against financial distress, which is based on ex ante measures of default probabilities of individual banks...
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Banks and other lenders often transfer credit risk to liberate capital for further loan intermediation. This paper aims to explore the design, prevalence and effectiveness of credit risk transfer (CRT). The focus is on the costs and benefits for the efficiency and stability of the financial...
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verbundene Kreditrisiko induziert ist, zeigen neuere empirische Untersuchungen,dass neben Kreditrisiken noch weitere Faktoren die …
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’look’ on an epistemic state, as the entropy does,but also ’looks’ into an epistemic state. First the argumentswill be …
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We outline a martingale duality method for determining the minimal entropy martingale measure in a general continuous …
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The laws of thermodynamics constrain transformation of materials and energy, and thus have implications for material and energy use in the economy, for environmental impact, and for policy. This paper provides an overview over the applications of concepts from thermodynamics in economics at the...
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Assuming the existence of Hegel‟s consistent overall picture of the concept of entropy, the author transfers the … physical term of entropy into economics and sociology and illuminates the relevance of second law of thermodynamics within both … meaning of physical terms and measures into equivalent ones of economics and sociology. Result: The change of entropy within a …
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