In its document “Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems”, the Basel Committee set a CVA methodology for the trading book, at a time the determination of the credit spread for those entities interested in advanced models in their risk management...

In this paper, we investigate the determinants of the Euro term structure of credit spreads. More specifically, we analyze whether the sensitivity of credit spread changes to financial and macroeconomic variables depends on bond characteristics such as rating and maturity. According to the...