One-factor models claim, that credit quality of a firm is determined by some general factor (e.g. country condition) and individual factors. Further models expand the list of common factors, and introduce, e.g., industry condition as the common factor that drives credit quality correlation. The...

This thesis gives an introduction to the principles of modern interest rate theory. After covering the basic tools for working in an environment with stochastic interest rates, we introduce different models for the term structure. The principals of risk neutral pricing are introduced and the...

Pricing kernels implicit in option prices play a key role in assessing the risk aversion over equity returns. We deal with nonparametric estimation of the pricing kernel (Empirical Pricing Kernel) given by the ratio of the risk-neutral density estimator and the subjective density estimator. The...

This study gives an outline of modern theory of classification and regression trees (CART) and shows the advantages of CART applications in finance. Practical issues regarding CART applications and core implementation are presented. The second part of the work is mainly concentrated on DAX30...

Numerous reasearch attempts in predicting business failures and or bankruptcy are well documented in corporate finance. Attempts to develop bankruptcy prediction continues since commercial banks, public accounting firms, bond rating agencies, for example have advocated for such information to...