Exercises
- How many credit agencies are there in the US? Which are the major ones?
- How many types of definition of risk are there? What are the differences between credit risk and market risk?
- How do you estimate the total risk and market risk of a firm? What is the related mathematical formula?
- How do you estimate the credit risk of a firm? What is the related mathematical formula?
- Why might the credit risk of a bond be different than its company's credit rating?
- If everything is equal, which one is for risk, long-term bonds, or short-term bonds?
- What is the definition of credit spread? Why is it useful?
- What are uses of the term structure of interest rate?
- What are the definitions of X1, X2, X3, X4, and X5 for Altman's Z-score? Explain why the higher a Z-score, the lower the probability of bankruptcy:
- Identify an issue with z score and find a way to address the issue.
- What is the one-year migration (transition) matrix?
- What is the relationship between the credit rating and the default probability...