Bayesian analysis of default and credit migration : latent factor models for event count and time-to-event data

This thesis develops Bayesian models to explain credit default and migration risk. Credit risk models used in practice are based on an assumption of conditionally independent events given a realization of systematic risk factors. The systematic risk can be modelled with both observed and unobserved...

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Main Author: Bu, Yongqiang
Other Authors: McNeil, Alexander
Published: Heriot-Watt University 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650558