In 1992 the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conducted an analysis that examined the effects of race on mortgage lending in the Boston Metropolitan Statistical Area. Collecting data on all the possibly relevant information used in the lending process, they find when controlling for a subset of...

Validating the discriminatory power of a rating system is not trivial: the underlying default probabilities that determine the discriminatory power change over time due to changes in the macroeconomic environment and the credit portfolio. This paper presents a methodology using Basel II's...