In the work of the Basel Committee there has been a tradition ofdistinguishing market from credit risk and to treat both categories independentlyin the calculation of risk capital. In practice positionsin a portfolio depend simultaneously on both market and credit riskfactors. In this case, an...

In this study we develop and demonstrate a powerful and flexible forward-looking portfoliosimulation methodology for assessing the correlated impacts of market risk, and privatesector, sovereign and inter-bank default risk on both individual banks (i.e. 28 of the largestBrazilian banks) and...

In this paper we investigate the interaction between a credit portfolio and another risktype, which can be thought of as market risk. Combining Merton-like factor models forcredit risk with linear factor models for market risk, we analytically calculate their interriskcorrelation and show how...