Essays on Risk and Volatility

In this work, we begin with an investigation into the temporal correlation in default risk. We first establish a link between the dynamics of house price changes and the dynamics of default rates in the Gaussian copula framework by specifying a time series model for a common risk factor. We show tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xu, Junyue
Other Authors: Hillebrand, Eric T.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2011
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11032011-153514/