by Alexander Rodnyansky, Christian Bittner, Farzad Saidi, Yannick Timmer
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Suggested foundations for rates and fixed income and credit and counterparty risk. Specialist prerequisites vary by paper.
Understand discounting in a stochastic-rate model.
Translate yield movements into first-order price risk.
Separate default probability, loss severity and exposure.
Read conditional default and exposure quantities.
Build a consistent discount curve.
Study a tractable mean-reverting rate model.
Study dependence between defaults.