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The Credit Market Handbook: Advanced Modeling Issues
Author(s): H. Gifford Fong
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date: 17 Mar. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0471778621
- ISBN-13: 9780471778622
Book Description
In The Credit Market Handbook, financial expert and Editor H. Gifford Fong has assembled a group of prominent professionals and academics familiar with the credit arena. In each chapter, a different expert analyzes a different issue related to todaya s dynamic credit market, including portfolio credit risk, valuation models, and the importance of modeling credit default. In bringing together these noted authors and their work, Fong provides you with a rich framework of research in the area of credit analysis. Some of the topics discussed within this comprehensive guide include: aeo Estimating default probabilities implicit in equity prices aeo Structural versus reduced form models: a new information--based perspective aeo Valuing high--yield bonds aeo Predictions of default probabilities in structural models of debt aeo And much more Filled with in--depth insight and expert advice, this invaluable resource offers you the critical information you need to succeed within todaya s credit market.
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From the Back Cover
In The Credit Market Handbook, financial expert and Editor H. Gifford Fong has assembled a group of prominent professionals and academics familiar with the credit arena. In each chapter, a different expert analyzes a different issue related to today s dynamic credit market, including portfolio credit risk, valuation models, and the importance of modeling credit default.
In bringing together these noted authors and their work, Fong provides you with a rich framework of research in the area of credit analysis. Some of the topics discussed within this comprehensive guide include:
- Estimating default probabilities implicit in equity prices
- Structural versus reduced form models: a new information-based perspective
- Valuing high-yield bonds
- Predictions of default probabilities in structural models of debt
- And much more
Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, this invaluable resource offers you the critical information you need to succeed within today s credit market.
About the Author
H. GIFFORD FONG. Is President of Gifford Fong Associates, a firm specializing in fixed income, derivative product analysis, and asset allocation. He is also Editor of the Journal of Investment Management (JOIM). Mr. Fong has received a number of honors, including the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance Award and the Financial Analysts Journal's Graham and Doff Award of Excellence. He is also coauthor of Fixed Income Portfolio Management and Advanced Fixed Income Portfolio Management.
