Using a unique data base of Global Credit Data with individual loan information from small and medium sized entities in Germany, Great Britain and the United States, we evaluate the time to resolution of defaulted loans. A comparison across countries reveals country specific drivers for the...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recently proposed fundamental changes in the regulatory treatment of financial institutions' trading book positions. Among others, a replacement of Value-at-Risk (α=0.99) by Expected Shortfall (α=0.975) for the quantification of market risk is...

Resolution of non-performing loans is a key determinant of bank credit default losses. This paper analyzes macroeconomic and systematic frailty effects of the default resolution time for a sample of 17,395 defaulted bank loans in USA, Great Britain, and Canada. We find that frailties have a huge...

Currently, the use and interpretation of t statistics and p-values is under scrutiny in various scientific fields for several reasons: p-hacking, data dredging, misinterpretation, multiple testing, or selective reporting, among others. To the best of our knowledge, this discussion has hardly...

The current financial crisis had its origins in the US subprime mortgage market and led to downturns in global equity, credit and commodity markets. This paper identifies the lack of economic information in risk valuation models as one reason why the financial industry was unable to predict,...

This paper provides an empirical study, which assesses the historical performance of credit rating agency (CRA) ratings for securitizations before and during the financial crisis. The paper finds that CRAs do not sufficiently address the systematic risk of the underlying collateral pools as well...

This paper provides an empirical study, which assesses the historical performance of credit rating agency (CRA) ratings for securitizations before and during the financial crisis. The paper finds that CRAs do not sufficiently address the systematic risk of the underlying collateral pools as well...

The mismatch between credit ratings o fstructured finance transactions and their true risks has been a source of the Global Financial Crisis which manifested in criticism of models and techniques applied by credit rating agencies (CRA). This paper provides an empirical study which assesses the...

Financial institutions are faced with the challenge to forecast future credit portfolio losses. It is common practice to focus on portfolio models consisting of a limited set of parameters, such as the probability of default, asset correlation, loss given default or exposure at default. A simple...

This paper provides an empirical study, which assesses the historical performance of credit rating agency (CRA) ratings for securitizations before and during the financial crisis. The paper finds that CRAs do not sufficiently address the systematic risk of the underlying collateral pools as well...