 | Rating Through-the-Cycle: What does the Concept Imply for Rating Stability and Accuracy? Author/Editor: John Kiff, Michael Kisser, Liliana Schumacher. Release Date:March, 2013 Credit rating agencies face a difficult trade-off between delivering both accurate and stable ratings. In particular, its users have consistently expressed a preference for rating stability, driven more...
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 | The Impact of Longevity Improvements on U.S. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans Author/Editor: Michael Kisser, John Kiff, Stefan E. Oppers, Mauricio Soto. Release Date:June, 2012 This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and more...
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 | Asset Securitization and Optimal Retention Author/Editor: John Kiff, Michael Kisser. Release Date:March, 2010 This paper builds on recent research by Fender and Mitchell (2009) who show that if financial institutions securitize loans, retaining an interest in the equity tranche does not always induce the more...
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