The Credit Market Handbook Advanced Modeling Issues

by Fong, H. Gifford

• ISBN13: 9780471778622
• ISBN10: 0471778621
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In The Credit Market Handbook, financial expert and Editor H. Gifford Fong has assembled a group of prominent professionals and academics familiar with the credit arena. In each chapter, a different expert analyzes a different issue related to today's dynamic credit market, including portfolio credit risk, valuation models, and the importance of modeling credit default. In bringing together these noted authors and their work, Fong provides you with a rich framework of research in the area of credit analysis. Some of the topics discussed within this comprehensive guide include: * Estimating default probabilities implicit in equity prices * Structural versus reduced form models: a new information-based perspective * Valuing high-yield bonds * Predictions of default probabilities in structural models of debt * And much more Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this invaluable resource offers you the critical information you need to succeed within today's credit market.

Author Biography

<b>H. GIFFORD FONG</b>. Is President of Gifford Fong Associates, a firm specializing in fixed income, derivative product analysis, and asset allocation. He is also Editor of the <i>Journal of Investment Manag</i>ement (JOIM). Mr. Fong has received a number of honors, including the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance Award and the <i>Financial Analysts Journal&#8217;s</i> Graham and Doff Award of Excellence. He is also coauthor of <i>Fixed Income Portfolio Management</i> and <i>Advanced Fixed Income Portfolio Management</i>.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Executive Chapter Summaries.

Chapter 1. Estimating Default Probabilities Implicit in Equity Prices (Tibor Janosi, Robert Jarrow and Yildiray Yildirim).

Chapter 2. Predictions of Default Probabilities in Structural Models of Debt (Hayne E. Leland).

Chapter 3. Survey of the Recent Literature, Recovery Risk (Sanjiv R. Das).            

Chapter 4. Non-Parametric Analysis of Rating Transition and Default Data (Peter Fledelius, David Lando and Jens Perch Nielsen).

Chapter 5. Valuing High Yield Bonds: A Business Modeling Approach (Thomas S. Y. Ho and Sang Bin Lee).

Chapter 6. Structural Versus Reduced Form Models A New Information Based Perspective (Robert A. Jarrow and Philip Protter).

Chapter 7. Reduced Form Vs. Structural Models of Credit Risk: A Case Study of Three Models (Navneet Arora, Jeffrey R. Bohn and Fanlin Zhu).

Chapter 8. Implications of Correlated Default for Portfolio Allocation to Corporate Bonds (Mark B.Wise and Vineer Bhansali).

Chapter 9. Correlated Default Processes: A Criterion-Based Copula Approach (Sanjiv R. Das and Gary Geng).