TY - BOOK AU - De Laurentis,Giacomo AU - Maino,Renato AU - Molteni,Luca TI - Developing, validating, and using internal ratings: methodologies and case studies SN - 9780470971895 AV - HG3751.5 .D4 2010eb U1 - 658.8/8 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley KW - Credit ratings KW - Risk assessment KW - Business KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Marketing KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Distribution KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320) and index; Developing, Validating and Using Internal Ratings; Contents; Preface; About the authors; 1 The emergence of credit ratings tools; 2 Classifications and key concepts of credit risk; 3 Rating assignment methodologies; 4 Developing a statistical-based rating system; 5 Validating rating models; 6 Case study: Validating PanAlp Bank's statistical-based rating system for financial institutions; 7 Ratings usage opportunities and warnings; Bibliography; Index N2 - This book looks at credit risk management, key concepts, measures and tools and focuses on possible approaches to rating, analysing and comparing expert judgment-based approaches, statistical based models and numerical tools. Two case studies are presented which focus on model building and validation. Model building is described in detail, and seeks to clarify the main issues concerned with model building, how to use statistical tools and interpret results. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate stages of model building are discussed outlining the need to merge the knowledge of quant people wi UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470971901 ER -