Richard Lennart Mertens

Richard Mertens is currently working as a consultant for credit risk and rating systems. He was a research fellow at the Chair of Finance at University of Bremen between 2014 and 2017 and continues to be a lecturer for corporate finance. His research areas are asset pricing, credit risk and corporate finance. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Humboldt University and a M.Sc. in Economics from University of Cologne.

Articles by Richard Lennart Mertens

Original research

Forecasting corporate defaults in the German stock market

In this paper, the authors estimate and test several default risk models using new and unique data on corporate defaults in the German stock market.

18 Jul 2018