We investigate valuation of volatility sensitive interest rate derivatives like the derivatives involving LIBOR or swap rates in arrears. The paper studies several alternatives of the standard convexity adjustment formula, in particular, a precise analytical formula based on an assumption of...

A retail bank consumer loan dataset is used to develop logistic regression based scoring functions with different definitions of default from a very broad to a narrow or hard. The performance of the scoring functions is compared with respect to the hard definition of default which indicates real...