A credit-sensitive note (CSN) is a corporate coupon-bearing bond whose floating coupon rates link to the credit rating of the corporation. Acharya, Das and Sundaram proposed a model to price them, but ...

In this paper, we propose a new methodology for modeling credit transition probability matrixes (TPMs) using macroeconomic factors. We use two indicators, which we call bias and inertia, to summarize ...

This paper outlines a way to estimate transition matrices for use in credit risk modeling with a decades-old methodology that uses aggregate proportions data. This methodology is ideal for credit-risk ...