Credit risk measurement

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Lucia Michalkova Katarina Frajtova Michalikova

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Focused on globalizaing of economics and still actual financial crisis credit risk becomes one of the most discussing topic in business world. Every investment decision should be accompanied by analysis of the possibility of default. Through the years there were developed many credit risk measures, so research and quantification of them are a subject of interest of many economic publications and studies. So nowadays there are many approaches which can be used by investors to monitor credit risk and it can be calculated through various models and methods. The aim of the article is to present the basic ones as well as the most often used models based on them such like CreditMetrics, CreditRisk or KMV model. There is given a comparison of these models in dimension as risk definition, risk source, recovery rate, types of model etc. Then we also describe pros and cons of them. Eventually we apply the CreditMetrics model for a single bond.    

Keywords: risk; credit risk; model; CreditMetrics

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