Default risk refers to the possibility that a company may fail to meet its financial obligations, such as paying dividends or repaying debt. When a company that has issued common stock defaults, the ...

A large number of student loan borrowers have not made payments on their loans since fall 2024, when the post-pandemic relief period for past-due borrowers officially ended, according to the ...

We develop a mixed-frequency, tree-based, gradient-boosting model designed to assess the default risk of privately held firms in real time. The model uses data from publicly-traded companies to ...

A research group has proposed to hedge default risk in the utility-scale PV business by adopting credit default swaps. The new methodology was tested through a series of Montecarlo simulations and ...

This article was written by Jerome Barkate, Nakul Nair, Zane Van Dusen, and Scott Coulter. We are witnessing a remarkable period in the credit markets. Following years of accommodative monetary ...