Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modelling Credit Risk
  • Definition and Elements of Credit Risk
  • Modelling Transition and Default Probabilities
  • Modelling Recovery Rates
  • 3. Pricing Credit Linked Financial Instruments
  • The Three-Factor Model
  • The Pricing of Defaultable Fixed and Floating Rate Debt
  • The Pricing of Credit Derivatives
  • A Discrete-Time Version of the Three-Factor Model
  • Fitting the Model to Market Data
  • Portfolio Optimization under Credit Risk
  • A.S & P's Definition of Default
  • B. Technical Proofs
  • C. Pricing of Credit Derivatives: Extensions.