The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor III writes in this in-depth dissection of the automaker’s undoing, GM’s was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience and insight as an automotive industry...

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...