McAleer, Michael; da Veiga, da Veiga, B.; Chan, Chan, F. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus … - 2009
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...