The END : A New Indicator of Financial and Nonfinancial Corporate Sector Vulnerability /

This paper describes a corporate sector vulnerability indicator, the expected number of defaults (END), based on the joint occurrence of defaults among a number of firms and/or institutions. The END indicator is general enough to assess systemic risk in the corporate and financial sectors, as well a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chan-Lau, Jorge
Other Authors: Gravelle, Toni
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/231
Online Access:Full text available on IMF