Assuming that a given bank wants to comply with the Basel Accord requirements, in particular the Foundation IRB approach. Accordingly, it has to develop a PD model to predict the probability of default of its borrower within one year. Hence, this paper aims to present a simply empirical...

According to the Basel Accord II, one of the key factors in the Internal-Ratings Based (IRB) framework is the Risk Weight Function (RWF). Indeed, it uses four risk components including PD, LGD, EAD, and M as input to yield the capital requirement and thereby Risk-Weighted Asset (RWA). Given the...