1 Introduction -- 2 Motivation -- Part I MEASURES -- 3 Basic Terms and Notation -- 4 Historical Value-at-Risk -- 5 Sensitivities -- 6 Stress Tests -- 7 Analytical Value-at-Risk -- 8 Expected Shortfall -- 9 Model Choices -- 10 A Monte Carlo Modi cation -- 11 Support Measures -- Part II OPERATIONS...

Prior research uses the basic one-period European call-option pricing model to compute default measures for individual firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn higher return than big firms only if they have...

Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry the covariance of income and loan repayments may explain higher household borrowings than in the case without default option. Under ex post information asymmetry and positive...