Research papers in empirical finance and financial econometrics are among the most widely cited, downloaded and viewed articles in the discipline of Finance. The special issue presents several papers by leading scholars in the field on “Recent Developments in Financial Economics and...

In this paper, we develop a new capital adequacy buffer model (CABM) which is sensitive to dynamic economic circumstances. The model, which measures additional bank capital required to compensate for fluctuating credit risk, is a novel combination of the Merton structural model which measures...

The article proposes to answer the following question: did the Cordoba Provincial Bank some responsibility for the devastating run on its deposits in June of 1890, which culminated with the closing of its doors in September of that same year; or was the macroeconomic situation in which was the...

We incorporate long-term defaultable corporate bonds and credit risk in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium business cycle model. Credit risk ampli¯es aggregate tech- nology shocks. The debt-capital ratio is a new state variable and its endogenous movements provide a propagation mechanism....

Venezuelan commercial and universal banks, as many banks in the rest of the world, are exposed to financial risks (credit risk, liquidity risk) and to operational risks. In this paper, the main relationships between the risks factors faced by banks and relevant economic variables are analysed,...

We consider portfolio credit loss distributions based on a factor model for individual exposures and establish an analytic characterization of the credit loss distribution if the number of exposures tends to infinity. Using this limiting distribution, we explain how skewness and leptokurtosis of...

This paper develops a model for the unified valuation of all forms of real asset financing, such as bank loans, leases, securitization vehicles, and credit guarantees, secured by assets that generate a stochastic service flow to the operator, or a rental stream to the lessor, and depreciate over...

How do markets for debt cash flow rights, with and without accompanying control rights, affect the efficiency of lending? A bank makes a loan, learns if it needs monitoring, and then decides whether to lay off credit risk. The bank can transfer credit risk by either selling the loan or buying a...

A new likelihood approach is proposed for the problem of semiparametric estimation of a conditional distribution or density under censoring. Consistency and asymptotic normality for two versions of the maximum likelihood estimator of the parameter vector in the single index model are proved. The...

Even though insurers predominantly invest in bonds, credit risk associated with government and corporate bonds has long not been a focus in their risk management. After the crisis of several European countries, however, credit risk has recently been paid greater attention. Nevertheless, the...