Financial Valuation and Risk Management (credit risk), NEKM41/TEK180

N.B.! The book is the following: Saunders, Anthony och Linda Allen (2010): Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, Third Edition (Wiley Finance)

 

·         The main reading material for this part of the course are my lecture slides. They can be bought at Printcenter (in EC1, next to the patio/ljusgården). The title of the lecture slides is "Credit risk......." and the author is me, Hans Byström.

·         In addition there is the book Saunders & Allen, Credit Risk Measurement In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms (Wiley Finance). Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 3rd Edition (2010). All chapters except chapters 1-3 and 10-11 are core material for the course. Chapters 1-3 are probably a good read despite the fact that the course does not focus explicitly on the crisis. The book is not expected to be read in detail.

·         Some additional material (FT- and WSJ-newspaper articles) will most likely be distributed in class.

·         Finally, here follows a list of links to additional compulsory reading material:

 

 

·         Material for the computer exercise can also be found below.

 

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Lecture 1

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Lecture 2

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Lecture 3

Moodys’: Default and Recovery Rates of Corporate Bond Issuers, 1970-2001

http://www.moodyskmv.com/research/whitepaper/02defstudy.pdf  pages 1-32

Moodys’: Corporate Default and Recovery Rates, 1920-2008

http://www.moodys.com/cust/content/content.ashx?source=StaticContent/Free%20Pages/Credit%20Policy%20Research/documents/current/2007400000578875.pdf  pages 1-10

The BIS in Profile

http://www.bis.org/about/profile.pdf

History of the Basel Committee and its Membership

http://www.bis.org/bcbs/history.pdf

Moody’s|KMV: Bothersome Basel

http://www.moodyskmv.com/newsevents/mc/mc04152004_econ2.html

 

Lecture 4

CreditMetrics Technical Document

http://www.defaultrisk.com/_pdf6j4/creditmetrics_techdoc.pdf pages i-vi and pages 1-21

 

Lecture 5

Modeling Default Risk: Modeling Methodology

http://www.moodyskmv.com/research/whitepaper/ModelingDefaultRisk.pdf

 

Lecture 6

An article about iTraxx CDS indexes

Credit default swaps and equity prices: the iTraxx CDS index market

An article about Microfinance CDOs

The microfinance collateralized debt obligation: a moderns Robin Hood?

 

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There is a compulsory computer exercise for this part of the course. Here are some files that we use for the computer exercise (laboration).

N.B., this year, 2011, the report for the computer exercise should be handed in before 16.00 Monday March 14!

Lab-information.doc

data.xls

edf.xls