Retail loan markets create special challenges for credit risk assessment. Borrowers tend to be informationally opaque and borrow relatively infrequently. Retail loans are illiquid and do not trade in secondary markets. For these reasons, historical credit databases are usually not available for...

This paper looks at the role of commercial banks and investment banks as financial advisors. Unlike some areas of investment banking, commercial banks have always been allowed to compete directly with traditional investment banks in this area. In their role as lenders and advisors, banks can be...

This paper looks at the role of commercial banks and investment banks as financial advisor's. Unlike some areas of investment banking, commercial banks have always been allowed to compete directly with traditional investment banks in this area. In their role as lenders and advisor's, banks can...

Procyclicality has emerged as a potential drawback to adoption of risk-sensitive bankcapital requirements. Systematic risk factors may result in increases (decreases) in bankcapital requirements when the economy is depressed (overheated), thereby decreasing(increasing) bank lending capacity and...

We survey both academic and proprietary models to examine how macroeconomic andsystematic risk effects are incorporated into measures of credit risk exposure. Manymodels consider the correlation between the probability of default (PD) and cyclicalfactors. Few models adjust loss rates (loss given...

We survey both academic and proprietary models to examine how macroeconomic and systematic risk effects are incorporated into measures of credit risk exposure. Many models consider the correlation between the probability of default (PD) and cyclical factors. Few models adjust loss rates (loss...

Retail loan markets create special challenges for credit risk assessment. Borrowers tend to be informationally opaque and borrow relatively infrequently. Retail loans are illiquid and do not trade in secondary markets. For these reasons, historical credit databases are usually not available for...