Under a new Basel capital accord, bank regulators might use quantitative measures when evaluating the eligibility of internal credit rating systems for the internal ratings based approach. Based on data from Deutsche Bundesbank and using a simulation approach, we find that it is possible to...

This paper studies the optimal policies of borrowers (firms or individuals) who may default subject to default costs, and analyzes the asset pricing implications. Borrowers defaulting under adverse economic conditions may, despite incurring default costs, emerge as wealthier than non-borrowers...

In this paper, we examine the dynamic behavior of credit spreads on corporate bond portfolios. We propose an econometric model of credit spreads that incorporates portfolio rebalancing, the near unit root property of spreads, the autocorrelation in spread changes, the ARCH conditional...

This paper discusses two of the primary motivating influences on the recent development/revisions of credit scoring models, - the important implications of Basel II’s proposed capital requirements on credit assets and the enormous amounts and rates of defaults and bankruptcies in the United...

This paper discusses two of the primary motivating influences on the recent development/revisions of credit scoring models, i.e., the important implications of Basel 2s proposed capital requirements on credit assets and the enormous amounts and rates of defaults and bankruptcies in the US in...

No consensus has yet emerged from the existing credit risk literature on how muchof the observed corporate-Treasury yield spreads can be explained by credit risk. In thispaper, we propose a new calibration approach based on historical default data and showthat one can indeed obtain consistent...

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.(...)

In this paper, we investigate the pricing of Japanese yen interest rate swaps during the period 1990-96. We obtain measures of the spreads of the swap rates over comparable Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) for different maturities and analyze the relationship between the swap spreads and credit...