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valuation techniques. A sound understanding of already existing credit pricing models is necessary for such a development. These … for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and the valuation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised … credit derivatives no longer seems to be an appropriate alternative. However, correct valuation of these derivatives is still …
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valid valuation techniques. A sound understanding of already existing credit pricing models is necessary for such a … for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and the valuation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised … credit derivatives, no longer seems to be an appropriate alternative. However, correct valuation of these derivatives is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299007
valid valuation techniques. A sound understanding of already existing credit pricing models is necessary for such a … for financial institutions. At the same time, the use and the valuation of credit derivatives has been widely criticised … credit derivatives, no longer seems to be an appropriate alternative. However, correct valuation of these derivatives is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049673
Within the last decade, credit risk management of financial institutions has been subject to major changes due to the development of the credit derivatives market. In the past, financial institutions merely had the possibility to manage their credit portfolio by either approving or refusing a...
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Within the last decade, credit risk management of financial institutions has been subject to major changes due to the development of the credit derivatives market. In the past, financial institutions merely had the possibility to manage their credit portfolio by either approving or refusing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005026971
derivatives no longer seems to bean appropriate alternative. However, correct valuation of these derivatives is still challenging ….The crisis has demonstrated that the issue is less about using credit derivatives than aboutdeveloping valid valuation techniques … key focus of thisworking paper.Literature distinguishes between three different kinds of credit pricing models: Asset …
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...
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The internal models amendment to the Basel Accord allows banks to use internal models to forecast Value-at-Risk (VaR) thresholds, which are used to calculate the required capital that banks must hold in reserve as a protection against negative changes in the value of their trading portfolios. As...
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When dealing with market risk under the Basel II Accord, variation pays in the form of lower capital requirements and higher profits. Typically, GARCH type models are chosen to forecast Value-at-Risk (VaR) using a single risk model. In this paper we illustrate two useful variations to the...
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Thinly traded securities exist in both emerging and well developed markets. However, plausible estimations of market risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the...
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