Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to, first, analyse to what extent the default probability based on structural models provides additional information and that accounting ratios do not contemplate. Second, to design hybrid models by including the default probability from structural models...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the common assumption, made by many credit risk models such as the Moody's KMV Loss‐Calc model, of a β distribution for the loss‐given default (LGD). The paper shows that this assumption does not perform well in constructing...

This paper focuses on estimating implied severity, which does not rely on historical data and can be used especially for low default companies. We perform an extended semiparametric estimation method based on a mixture start to estimate it. We carry out an empirical analysis and our results show...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the common assumption, made by many credit risk models such as the Moody's KMV Loss-Calc model, of a ß distribution for the loss-given default (LGD). The paper shows that this assumption does not perform well in constructing...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the performance of firms that went public on Madrid Stock Exchange in the period 1985-1997. Results show that no relation exists between the ownership structure of a firm and the decline in returns subsequent to its going public, although a signaling effect...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of the underwriting syndicate in relation to firms that went public on the Madrid Stock Exchange between 1985 and 2004. The sample time frame chosen, which covers a period of twenty years, allows us to analyze the evolution of the role of the...

The calculus of VaR involves dealing with the confidence level, the time horizon and the true underlying conditional distribution function of asset returns. In this paper, we shall examine the effects of using a specific distribution function that fits well the low-tail data of the observed...