The use of robust regression estimators has gained popularity among applied econometricians. The main argument invoked to justify the use of the robust estimators is that they provide efficiency gains in the presence of outliers or non-normal errors. Unfortunately, most practitioners seem to be...

In credit risk modelling, method-of-moment approaches are popular to estimate latent asset return correlations within and between rating buckets. However, the autocorrelation that is often present in time series of default rates leads to systematically too low estimations. We propose a new...