During the 2007-2009 crises financial institutions have come underincreasing pressure from regulators, politicians and shareholders tochange their compensation practices in order to remove the incentive forshort term excessive risk taking. In this paper we analyze first how thecommon executive...

A sovereign that is issuing debt denominated in foreign currency is exposed to a mismatch between the value of its assets that can be used to serve the debt, denominated in local currency, and the value of its liability. During economic crisis, when the probability of default by the sovereign...

During the 2007-2009 crises financial institutions have come under increasing pressure from regulators, politicians and shareholders to change their compensation practices in order to remove the incentive for short-term excessive risk taking In this paper we analyze how commonly used executive...

During the 2007-2009 crises financial institutions have come under increasing pressure from regulators, politicians and shareholders to change their compensation practices in order to remove the incentive for short term excessive risk taking. In this paper we analyze first how the common...

During the 2007-2009 crises financial institutions have come under increasing pressure from regulators, politicians and shareholders to change their compensation practices in order to remove the incentive for short term excessive risk taking. In this paper we analyze how commonly used executive...

Although many credit risk models exist in the academic literature, little attention has been paid to the measurement of credit spread, which is an important input in most of those models.When a reference entity has not issued any straight bond it becomes impossible to calculate credit spread and...