Recent Advances in Credit Risk Modeling
32 Pages Posted: 19 Aug 2009
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Recent Advances in Credit Risk Modeling
Recent Advances in Credit Risk Modeling
Date Written: August 2009
Abstract
As is well known, most models of credit risk have failed to measure the credit risks in the context of the global financial crisis. In this context, financial industry representatives, regulators and academics worldwide have given new impetus to efforts to improve credit risk modeling for countries, corporations, financial institutions, and financial instruments. The paper summarizes some of the recent advances in this regard. It considers modifications of structural models, including of the classical Merton model, and efforts to reconcile the structural and the reduced-form models. It also discusses the reassessment of the default correlations using copulas, the pricing of credit index options, and the determination of the prices of distressed debt and estimation of recovery values.
Keywords: Asset prices, Bankruptcy, Bonds, Credit risk, Currencies, Economic models, External debt, Financial crisis, Financial risk, Financial sector, Sovereign debt
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