Introduction : creditworthiness and 'responsible credit' -- Creditworthiness assessment as a macroprudential duty -- Creditworthiness for individuals : methodologies and legal issues -- Creditworthiness assessment and other contractual duties as tools of 'responsible credit' : the case of...

We present an analysis of the sensitivity of household mortgage probabilities of default (PDs) and loss given default (LGDs) on unemployment rates, house price growth, interest rates, and other drivers. A structural micro-macro simulation model is used to that end. It is anchored in the balance...

In a default corridor [0,B] that the stock price can never enter, a deep out-of-the-money American put replicates a pure credit contract (Carr and Wu, 2011). Assuming discrete (one-period-ahead predictable) cash flows, we show an endogenous credit-risk model generates, along with the default...