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Credit Risk Modelling by Michael Gordy
  • Credit Risk Modelling

  • The Cutting-edge Collection - Technical Papers Published in Risk 1999-2003

  • by Michael Gordy
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    • Product code: 15924
    • ISBN: 1904339085, ISBN13: 9781904339083, 300 pages, hardback
      Published by Risk Books on 2003 , New title
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    Description of Credit Risk Modelling

    This volume brings together the most innovative and instrumental papers on credit risk modelling to reflect the major developments to date. This volume also focuses on the influences that are currently shaping the industry. The book is designed to allow readers to easily familiarise themselves with all the leading authorities, ideas and techniques used in today's business. The papers are subdivided into easy-reference sections that include credit portfolio modelling and measurement; credit derivatives; default models and prediction; credit risk modelling in relation to Basel II. It is introduced by Michael Gordy, who illustrates the significance that each chapter has on modern credit practice It allows the reader to compare and contrast two different philosophies in credit risk modelling - "structural models" and "reduced-form models" The book covers the statistical and financial tools that lie behind credit risk theory and management in addition to offering a comprehensive treatment of the pricing of credit derivatives, including credit swaps and CDOs.
    It includes detailed analysis on the basic parameters that dominate credit risk modelling, such as default probabilities, credit ratings, rating transitions and recovery rates

    Contents of Credit Risk Modelling

    - Random Tranches
    Michael Gody and Dvid Jones
    - Coarse-grained CDOs
    Michael V. Pykhtin and Ashish Dev
    - Loan Portfolio Value
    Oldrich Vasicek
    - Unsystematic Credit Risk
    Richard Martin and Tom Wilde
    - Copula Vulnerability
    Umberto Cherubini and Elisa Luciano
    - Calculating Portfolio Loss
    Sandro Merino and Mark Nyfeler
    - The Maturity Effect on Credit Risk Capital
    Michael Kalkbrenner and Ludger Overbeck
    - Long or Short in CDOs
    Hans Boscher and Ian Ward
    - Extreme Events and Default Baskets
    Roy Mashal and Marco Naldi
    - Credit Risk in Asset Securitisations: An Analytical Model
    Michael Pykhtin and Ashish Dev
    - Analytical Approach to Credit Risk Modelling
    Michael Pykhtin and Ashish Dev
    - The Need for Hybrid Models
    Jorge Sobehart and Sean Keenan
    - Pricing Default Baskets
    Wolfgang Schmidt and Ian Ward
    - Distance to Default Models
    Marco Avellaneda and Jingyi Zhu
    - Equity to Credit Pricing
    George Pan
    - Copulas and Credit Models
    Rudiger Frey, Alexander McNeil and Mark Nyfeler
    - Procyclicality in the New Basel Accord
    Wilson D. Ervin and Tom Wilde
    - Probing Granularity
    Tom Wilde
    - How Dependent are Defaults?
    Richard Martin, Kevin Thompson and Christopher Browne
    - Taking to The Saddle
    Richard Martin, Kevin Thompson and Christopher Browne
    - Reconciling Ratings
    Stefan Blochwitz, Stefan Hohl
    - Weighting for risk
    Jon Frye
    - IRB Approach Explained
    Tom Wilde
    - Modelling Default Correlation
    Krishan Nagpal and Reza Bahar
    - Measuring Default Accurately
    Jorge Sobehart and Sean Keenan
    - Price and Probability
    Richard Martin, Kevin Thompson and Christopher Browne
    - Collateral Damage
    Jon Frye
    - Devil in the Parameters
    Ugur Koyluoglu, Anil Bangia and Thomas Garside
    - On the Edge of Completeness
    Angelo Arvanitis and Jean-Paul Laurent
    - Integrating Correlations
    Peter Burgisser, Alexander Kurth, Armin Wagner and Michael Wolf
    - Applying HJM to Credit Risk
    Robert Maksymiuk and Dariusz Gatarek
    - A credit Risk Catwalk
    Sean Keenan, Jorge Sobehart
    - Depressing Recoveries
    Jon Frye
    - Getting the Pricing Right
    Angelo Arvanitis
    - Credit Derivatives Made Simple
    Lane Hughston and Stuart Turnbull

    About Michael Gordy

    Michael Gordy is a senior economist in the research and statistics division of the Federal Reserve Board. His current research focuses on the design, calibration, computation and validation of models of portfolio credit risk, and on the adaptation of these models to setting regulatory capital requirements. Michael received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994 and a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Yale University in 1985.

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