Credit-Risk Modelling: Theoretical Foundations, Diagnostic Tools, Practical Examples, and Numerical Recipes in Python

by David Jamieson Bolder

Overview

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a comprehensive and attainable mathematical and statistical discussion of a broad range of existing default-risk models. Model description and derivation, however, is only part of the story. Through use of exhaustive practical examples and extensive code illustrations in the Python programming language, this work also explicitly shows the reader how these models are implemented. Bringing these complex approaches to life by combining the technical details with actual real-life Python code reduces the burden of model complexity and enhances accessibility to this decidedly specialized field of study. The entire work is also liberally supplemented with model-diagnostic, calibration, and parameter-estimation techniques to assist the quantitative analyst in day-to-day implementation as well as in mitigating model risk. Written by an active and experienced practitioner, it is an invaluable learning resource and reference text for financial-risk practitioners and an excellent source for advanced undergraduate and graduate students seeking to acquire knowledge of the key elements of this discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030069001
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/11/2019
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Pages:	684
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Jamieson Bolder is currently head of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) model-risk function. Prior to this appointment, he provided analytic support to the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) treasury and asset-management functions and worked in quantitative roles at the Bank of Canada, the World Bank Treasury, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has authored numerous papers, articles, and chapters in books on financial modelling, shastic simulation, and optimization. He has also published a comprehensive book on fixed-income portfolio analytics. His career has focused on the application of mathematical techniques towards informing decision-making in the areas of sovereign-debt, pension-fund, portfolio-risk, and foreign-reserve management.

Table of Contents

Getting Started.- Part I Modelling Frameworks.- A Natural First Step.-Mixture or Actuarial Models.- Threshold Models.-The Genesis of Credit-Risk Modelling.- Part II Diagnostic Tools.- A Regulatory Perspective.- Risk Attribution.- Monte Carlo Methods.- Part III Parameter Estimation.- Default Probabilities.- Default and Asset Correlation.

Editorial Reviews

The book is easy to read, the models and techniques are illustrated in detail and with complete derivations, making the volume accessible for self-study.” (Claudio Fontana, zbMATH 1422.91012, 2019)

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