Altman, Edward I. [1941- ] - Bankruptcy, Credit Risk, and High Yield Junk Bonds

Malden / Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, (2002). orig.boards. 25x17cm, xxix,540 pp. Textual charts & tables. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 28 papers concerning Distress Prediction Models & Some Applications; Credit Risk Management; High Yield "Junk" Bonds & Distressed Securities; Bankruptcy & Firm Valuation. Includes: Predicting Financial Distress of Companies: Revisiting the Z-Score and ZETA Models; Introducting Recursive Partitioning for Financial Classification: The Case of Financial Distress; Corporate Distress Diagnosis: Comparisons Using Linear Discriminant Analyses & Neural Networks (The Italian Experience); Business Failure Classification Models: An International Survey; Emerging Market Corporate Bonds - A Scoring System; Managing a Return to Financial Health; Valuation, Loss Reserves & Pricing of Commercial Loans; An Economic & Statistical Analysis of the Failing Company Doctrine; Credit- Risk Management & Management: The Ironic Challenge in the Next Decade; Credit Risk Management: Developments over the Last 30 Years; Measuring Corporate Bond Mortality & Performance; Default Rates in the Syndicated Bank Loan Market: A Mortality Analysis; Do Seniority Provisions Protect Bondholders' Investments? Aggregate Influences on Business Failure Rates; The Default Rate Experience on High-Yield Corporate Debt: A Yield Premium Model for the High-Yield Debt Market; Should We Regulate Junk Bonds? The Implications of Corporate Bond Ratings Drift; Investing in Distressed Securities: The Anatomy of Defaulted Debts & Equities; Market Size & Investment Performance of Defaulted Bonds & Bank Loans 1987-2000; Firm Valuation & Corporate Leveraged Restructurings; etc.