This article seeks to make an assessment of estimation uncertainty in a multi-rating class loan portfolio. Relationships are established between estimation uncertainty and parameters such as probability of default, intra- and inter-rating class correlation, degree of inhomogeneity, number of...

The use of probability of default estimates to assess the risks of a credit portfolio should not ignore estimation uncertainty. The latter can be quantified by confidence intervals. But assumptions about dependencies of these intervals are inconsistent with assumptions of conventional credit...

The risk of bad debt losses evolves for companies which grant payment targets. Possible losses have to be covered by these companies equity and liquidity reserves. The question of how to quantify the level of risk of bad debt losses will be discussed in this paper. Input values of this risk are...

Für Unternehmen, die ihren Kunden Zahlungsziele einräumen, besteht die Gefahr, daß ein Kunde nach Ablauf der Zahlungsfrist nicht in der Lage ist, die an ihn gestellten Rechnungen zu begleichen. In diesem Fall erleidet der Gläubiger einen Verlust, der unter Umständen die eigene...