This paper investigates the impact of annual report readability on the corporate bond market. My findings indicate that in the US corporate bond market, firms with less readable annual reports tend to have higher credit spreads, higher credit spread volatilities, higher transaction costs, higher...

The textbook discusses risk management in capital markets and presents various techniques of portfolio optimization. Special attention is given to risk measurement and credit risk management. Furthermore, the author discusses optimal investment problems and presents various examples. In the last...

1 Introduction: Economics and Organization of Financial Markets -- Part 1 Basic Financial Instruments -- 2 Basic Finance: Interest rates, Discounting, Investments, Loans -- 3 The Money Market and its Interbank Segment -- 4 The Bond Markets -- 5 Introduction to the Analysis of Interest Rate and...

An analysis and further development of the building blocks of modern credit risk management:- Definitions of default- Estimation of default probabilities- Exposures- Recovery Rates- Pricing- Concepts of portfolio dependence- Time horizons for risk calculations- Quantification of portfolio risk-...