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Credit risk modeling and valuation : an introduction
Giesecke, Kay - 2002
Credit risk refers to the risk of incurring losses due to unexpected changes in the credit quality of a counterparty or …. We consider individual as well as correlated credit risks. -- compensator ; intensity ; credit risk ; default risk …
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A simple state space model of house prices
Schulz, Rainer; Werwatz, Axel - 2002
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Real estate valuation according to standardized methods : an empirical analysis
Schulz, Rainer - 2002
Appraisals are needed for decision-making and for performance evaluation. Knowledge on the accuracy of valuation methods is of general interest for banks and investors. We assess the accuracy of the German Regulation on Valuation with monthly data on appraisals and prices for commercial...
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Volatility estimates of the short term interest rate with an application to German data
Dankenbring, Henning - 1998
This paper proposes a procedure for testing alternative specifications of the short term interest rate's dynamics which takes into account that according to some restrictions the interest rate is nonstationary, i.e. the traditional test statistic has a non-standard distribution. Moreover, we do...
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The response of long-term interest rates to news about monetary policy actions : empirical evidence for the US and Germany
Nautz, Dieter; Wolters, Jürgen - 1998
tests of expectations theory this implication only requires rational expectations but not stationary risk premia. Therefore …
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Cointegrating smooth transition regressions with applications to the Asian currency crisis
Saikkonen, Pentti; Choi, In - 2000
This paper studies the smooth transition regression model where regressors are I(1) and errors are I(0). The regressors and errors are assumed to be dependent both serially and contemporaneously. Using the triangular array asymptotics, the nonlinear least squares estimator is shown to be...
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Modeling the US short-term interest rate by mixture autoregressive processes
Lanne, Markku; Saikkonen, Pentti - 2000
A new kind of mixture autoregressive model with GARCH errors is introduced and applied to the U.S. short-term interest rate. According to the diagnostic tests developed in the paper and further informal checks the model is capable of capturing both of the typical characteristics of the...
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
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Tax evasion and risky investments in an intertemporal context : an experimental study
Giese, Sebastian; Hoffmann, Antje - 2000
In this experimental study of tax evasion and its determinants participants earn their income in a complex stochastic intertemporal environment including the possibility to invest into a risky asset. The earned income has to be declared in four tax returns which are randomly verified. If tax...
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Exploring credit data
Müller, Marlene; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2002
Credit scoring methods aim to assess the default risk of a potential borrower. This involves typically the calculation … of a credit score and the estimation of the probability of default. One of the standard approaches is logistic … discriminant analysis, also referred to as logit model. This model maps explanatory variables for the default risk to a credit …
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