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From Fault Tree to Credit Risk Assessment: A Case Study

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  • Hayette Gatfaoui

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Reliability has been largely applied to industrial systems in order to study the various possibilities of systems’ failure. The goal is to establish the chain of events leading to any system’s failure, namely the top event. Looking for the minimal paths leading to any system’s fault allows for a better control of systems’ safety. To this end, reliability is composed of a static approach as well as a dynamic approach. In this paper, we extend the canonical framework allowing for the application of fault tree theory to credit risk assessment. The author explains that fault tree is one alternative approach of reliability, which matches default risk analysis in a simple framework. Our extension includes other distributions of probability to model the lifetimes of French firms while studying the related empirical default probabilities. We use mainly, but not exclusively, continuous distributions. Our results exhibit both the exponential nature of French .rms. lifetimes as well as strong convex and fast decreasing time varying failure rates. Such a feature has some non-negligible impact insofar as it characterizes corresponding credit spreads’ Term structure.

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  • Hayette Gatfaoui, 2004. "From Fault Tree to Credit Risk Assessment: A Case Study," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2004_05, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
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    Keywords

    Credit risk; default probability; failure rate; fault tree; reliability; survival;
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    JEL classification:

    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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