"Preface Second Edition The first edition of this book appeared eight years ago. Since then the banking industry experienced a lot of change and challenges. The most recent financial crisis which started around May 2007 and lasted in its core period until early 2009 gave rise for a lot of...

We investigate default probabilities and default correlations of Merton-type credit portfolio models in stress scenarios where a common risk factor is truncated. The analysis is performed in the class of elliptical distributions, a family of light-tailed to heavy-tailed distributions...

chapter 1 The Basics of Credit Risk Management -- chapter 2 Modeling Correlated Defaults -- chapter 3 Asset Value Models -- chapter 4 The CreditRisk+ Model -- chapter 5 Risk Measures and Capital Allocation -- chapter 6 Term Structure of Default Probability -- chapter 7 Credit Derivatives --...