Considering correlations between entries of credit portfolio is an important objective when estimating credit risk. This paper aims to construct a multivariate model of credit losses examining a portfolio composed of loans to a set of kinds of business. The paper also introduces the method of...

We study whether prices of traded options contain information about future extreme market events. Our option-implied conditional expectation of market loss due to tail events, or tail loss measure, predicts future market returns, magnitude, and probability of the market crashes, beyond and above...

According to the last proposals of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, banks under the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) must use four different sources of information to assess their Operational Risk capital requirement. The fourth including "business environment and internal control...

There is an inherent problem with comparing and ranking competing Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected shortfall (ES) models since we are measuring only a single realization of the underlying data generation process. The question is whether there is any significant statistical difference in the...

According to the last proposals of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, banks under the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) must use four different sources of information to assess their Operational Risk capital requirement. The fourth including "business environment and internal control...