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Essays on credit risk, risk adjusted performance and economic capital in financial institutions

This dissertation consists of three autonomous essays, discussing the following topics: 1. the pricing of defaultable bonds, loans and plain vanilla credit derivatives, 2. the use of risk-adjusted performance measurement, for optimal portfolio management in the banking, asset management and insurance industries 3. return on economic capital as a measure of value created by the holding of bank assets and the operation of bank business units.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:418938
Date January 2005
CreatorsOnorato, Mario
PublisherCity University London
Source SetsEthos UK
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Sourcehttp://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8452/

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