We define a new approach to manage prepayment, default and interest rate risks simultaneously in some standard asset-backed securities structures. We propose a parsimonious top-down approach, by modeling directly the portfolio loss process and the amortization process. Both are correlated to...

We provide a rigorous proof of granularity adjustment (GA) formulas to evaluate loss distributions and risk measures (value-at-risk) in the case of heterogenous portfolios, multiple systematic factors and random recoveries. As a significant improvement with respect to the literature, we detail...

In competing risks model, several failure times arise potentially. The smallest failure time and its index only are observed. Without specific assumptions, the joint or even the marginal distribution functions of the underlying failure times are not identifiable (A. Tsiatis, Proc. Natl. Acad....