The bank regulation embodied in the Basel II Accord has opened-up a new era in estimating recovery rates or complementary loss given default in retail lending credit evaluation process. In this paper we investigate the properties of survival analysis models applied for recovery rates in order to...

In this paper, Extreme value theory (EVT) is applied in estimating low quantiles of P/L distribution and the results are compared to common VaR methodologies. The fundamental theory behind EVT is built, and peaks-over-threshold method is used for modeling the tail of the distribution of losses...