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Capital allocation for credit portfolios with kernel estimators
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Abstract
Determining contributions by sub-portfolios or single exposures to portfolio-wide economic capital for credit risk is an important risk measurement task. Often economic capital is measured as Value-at-Risk (VaR) of the portfolio loss distribution. For many of the credit portfolio risk models used in... view more
Determining contributions by sub-portfolios or single exposures to portfolio-wide economic capital for credit risk is an important risk measurement task. Often economic capital is measured as Value-at-Risk (VaR) of the portfolio loss distribution. For many of the credit portfolio risk models used in practice, the VaR contributions then have to be estimated from Monte Carlo samples. In the context of a partly continuous loss distribution (i.e. continuous except for a positive point mass on zero), we investigate how to combine kernel estimation methods with importance sampling to achieve more efficient (i.e. less volatile) estimation of VaR contributions.... view less
Classification
Economic Statistics, Econometrics, Business Informatics
Financial Planning, Accountancy
Method
theory application
Free Keywords
Credit Risk, Financial Simulation, Monte Carlo Methods, Risk Measures
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 581-595
Journal
Quantitative Finance, 9 (2009) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14697680802620599
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)