Credit rating transition matrices form a little noticed yet vital part of many financial models. Based on historical data, transition matrices measure how quickly ratings can be expected to move from ...

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 ...

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1977), pp. 97-104 (8 pages) This paper deals with the estimation of the left probability eigenvector and related characteristics of an ergodic matrix ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 41, Stochastic Methods and Their Applications (2004), pp. 347-360 (14 pages) This paper investigates the probabilistic behaviour of the eigenvalue of the empirical ...