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Developing reliable, regulatory compliant and customer-oriented credit risk models requires thorough knowledge of credit risk phenomenon. Tight collaboration between stakeholders is necessary and hence models need to be transparent, interpretable and explainable as well as accurate, for experts without statistical background. In the context of credit risk, one can speak of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Hence, practice and market standards are also underlined in this study. So far, credit risk research has mainly focused on the estimation of the probability of default parameter. However, as systems and processes have evolved to comply with regulation in the last decade, recovery data has improved, which has raised loss given default (LGD) up to the heart of credit risk. In the context of LGD, most of the studies have emphasized estimation of one-stage models. However, in practice, market standards support a multi-stage approach which follows the institution's simplified recovery processes. Generally, multi-stage models are more transparent and have better predictive power and compliant status with the regulation. This thesis presents a framework to analyze and execute sensitivity analysis for multi-stage LGD model. The main contribution of the study is to increase the knowledge of LGD modelling by giving insights to the sensitivity of discriminatory power between risk drivers, model components and LGD score. The study aims to answer two questions. Firstly, how sensitive the predictive power of multi-stage LGD model is on the correlation of risk drivers and individual components? Secondly, how to identify the most driving risk factors that need to be considered in multi-stage LGD modelling to achieve adequate level LGD score? The experimental part of this thesis is divided into two parts. The first one presents the motivation, study design and experimental setup used in this thesis to execute the study. The second part focuses on the sensitivity analysis of risk drivers, components and LGD score. Sensitivity analysis presented in this study gives important knowledge of behavior of multi-stage LGD and dependencies between independent risk drivers, components and LGD score with regards to the correlations and model performance metrics. Introduced sensitivity framework can be utilised in assessing the need and schedule for model calibrations with related to the changes in application portfolio. In addition, framework and results can be used in recognizing the needs for monthly performed IFRS 9 ECL calculation updates. The study also gives input for model stress testing where different scenarios and impacts are analyzed regarding the changes in macroeconomic conditions. Even though the focus of this study is in credit risk, the methods presented are also applicable in the different fields outside the financial sector.