Estimating credit contagion in a standard-factor model

Cutting Edge - Credit Portfolio Risk

Among the most important positions on the asset side of a financial institution's balance sheet are credit-risky securities, and a major task for risk managers and analytics is the appropriate modelling and forecasting of the inherent credit risk. Banks and other firms typically use credit risk models for this purpose, either supplied by vendors such as CreditMetrics or CreditRisk+ or internally developed (see, for example, Finger, 1998; Credit Suisse First Boston, 1997; or Bluhm, Overbeck &

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