Purpose: The goal of this study was to propose the multi-agent mechanism to forecast the corporate financial distress. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized numerous methods, namely random subspace method, discriminant analysis and decision tree to construct the multi-agent...

The level of capital requirement generated by the IRB approach depends crucially on the asset correlation, a parameter that enters the regulatory risk weight formula and is determined by the Regulators. Several studies have estimated the asset correlations and found that the empirical values are...

We study the credit risk of banks in Germany from lending to non-financial firms. We model changes in Expected Credit Loss, which is derived from the guidelines in the IFRS 9 accounting standard. We map the accounting model to a dataset with individual loans as the unit of observation...