This report presents an analysis of the market for export credit insurance. Governments of all developed countries offer exporting companies export credit (re)insurance, either directly or indirectly. This raises the questions 1. What are the key determinants of export credit risk insurability by the private market? 2. Which export credit risks can be covered by the private market? We provide a...

in this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in north khorassan province for the two periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance model. to evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix were used. results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. during study period, a decreas...

Brief introduced the concepts of credit and credit risk in e-commerce, analyzed the impact of credit risks in e-commerce. Gave out the basic contents of personal credit information and business credit information in e-commerce, and analyzed and pointed out the main factors that caused the security risks of e-commerce credit information. At last, proposed some technical and non-technical measure...

Using a large data set on credit default swaps, we study how default risk interacts with interest-rate risk and liquidity risk to jointly determine the term structure of credit spreads. We classify the reference companies into two broad industry sectors, two broad credit rating classes, and two liquidity groups. We develop a class of dynamic term structure models that include (i) two benchmark ...

The mismatch between credit ratings of structured finance transactions and their true risks has been a source of the Global Financial Crisis which manifested in criticism of models and techniques applied by credit rating agencies (CRA). This paper provides an empirical study which assesses the historical performance of credit ratings for structured finance transactions and finds that CRAs do no...