Knowing the relative riskiness of different types of credit exposure is important for policy-makers designing regulatory capital requirements and for firms allocating economic capital. This paper analyses the risk structure of credit exposures with different maturities and credit qualities. It...

The recent interest in portfolio credit risk modelling has concentrated attention on the correlation structure of credit risk. This paper calculates long-holding period correlations for emerging market sovereign spreads and compares these with the correlations of equity market indices for the...

Sample volatilities calculated from short-interval (daily) data do not necessarily imply much about volatility of financial assets over long (yearly) horizons. In this note we construct a model-free volatility estimator to investigate the long horizon volatility of various short-term interest...