Curve fitting of the corporate recovery rates: the comparison of Beta distribution estimation and kernel density estimation.

Recovery rate is essential to the estimation of the portfolio's loss and economic capital. Neglecting the randomness of the distribution of recovery rate may underestimate the risk. The study introduces two kinds of models of distribution, Beta distribution estimation and kernel density distrib...

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Main Authors: Rongda Chen, Ze Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3707900?pdf=render

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