General Remarks

The goal of this course is to make you familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for assessing credit risk.

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Characterizing the course

• Make you familiar with state-of-the art credit analysis used by banks, rating agencies, fund management, supervisory authorities
• Quantitative yet practical
• Computer-aided exercises
• Prerequisites: Basic financial theory, statistics
• Career relevance: banking, corporate finance, rating agencies, fund management, supervisory authorities, consulting, accountancy.

Course Contents

• Single-obligor credit analysis
• Credit portfolio risk
• Bank regulation
• Credit derivatives, securitization and the recent financial crisis

For more information about the course content, please see the module description.

Time Table

Literature

Other useful textbooks 

• Bessis: Risk management in banking
• Crouhy/Galai/Mark: Risk Management, McGraw-Hill.
• Duffie/Singleton: Credit Risk, Princeton University Press
• Saunders/Cornett: Financial Institutions Management, McGraw-Hill.
• Oehler/Unser: Finanzwirtschaftliches Risikomanagement, Springer.