This paper shows how financial contracts might be redesigned to allow for banks to manage the idiosyncratic component for their own accounts.

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a new method for credit risk allocation among economic agents. Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers a pool of bank loans subject to a credit risk and develops a method for decomposing the credit risk into idiosyncratic and systematic...

We consider a pool of bank loans subject to a credit risk and develop a method for decomposing the credit risk into idiosyncratic and systemic components. The systemic component accounts for the aggregate statistical difference between credit defaults in a given period and the long-run average...