This paper proposes some improvements to advanced measurement approach (AMA) to modelling operational losses and applies this approach to US business losses. The AMA involves, among others, modelling a loss severity distribution and estimating its Expected Loss and the 99.9% operational...

This paper employs methodologies that were developed for heavy right-tailed distributions to construct the point and interval estimates of the expected operational losses in the US. These are consistent and unbiased estimates of the mean of the heavy right-tailed loss distribution, whereas those...

This paper presents a new method for synthesizing instrumental variables using only the dependent and endogenous explanatory variables of the regression model. We show that a valid instruments can be spanned using the dependent and endogenous variables. Then based on this rationale, we construct...