We consider a single period portfolio of n dependent credit risks that are subject to default during the period. We show that using stochastic loss given default random variables in conjunction with default correlations can give rise to an inconsistent set of assumptions for estimating the...

The increase in trading frequency of Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) presents a positive externality for financial risk management when the price of the ETF is available at a higher frequency than the price of the component stocks. The positive spillover consists in improving the accuracy of...

In this supplementary appendix, we first provide a brief R and Python tutorial for the proposed BAC estimator. Then, we describe the implementation of the BAC estimator in case of microstructure noise and jumps. We further present more detailed empirical results for the BAC estimation applied to...