Being still in its early stages, operational risk modeling has, so far, mainly been concentrated on the marginal distributions of frequencies and severities within the context of the Loss Distribution Approach (LDA). A realistic quantitative model, however, should be capable of modeling the...

Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) has been addressed by the Basel Committee in document International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards. Financial institutions must meet certain criteria to obtain regulatory approval.This paper proposes a logical structure to quantify...

Insurance companies face many risks, which should be managed. Though their core competences and main contribution to society is to accept the risks of businesses and individual and to protect their assets and revenues, they have to ensure a minimum financial solvency and the continuity of its...

Under the Basel II standards, the Operational Risk (OpRisk) advanced measurement approach allows a provision for reduction of capital as a result of insurance mitigation of up to 20%. This paper studies different insurance policies in the context of capital reduction for a range of extreme loss...

The 2004 Basel II accord requires internationally active banks to hold regulatory capital for operational risk, and the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) requires banks to project operational risk losses under stressed scenarios. As a result, banks subject to...

The 2004 Basel II accord requires internationally active banks to hold regulatory capital for operational risk, and the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) requires banks to project operational risk losses under stressed scenarios. As a result, banks subject to...

This paper proposes a new framework to reduce the variance and uncertainty in the risk assessment process. Today, this process is susceptible to background noise from sources of human factor biases and erroneous measurements. Our new framework consists of deconstructing the likelihood of failure...

Als Teil des operationellen Risikos stellt das Modellrisiko eine wichtige Komponente für die Risikoermittlung bei Finanzinstitutionen dar. Da letztere z.B. bei der Tarifierung und Bepreisung von Derivaten bzw. Portfolien oder bei der Markt- und Kreditrisikoberechnung auf stochastische Modelle...

In this paper, we propose a general modeling framework for operational risk management of financial firms. We consider operational risk events as shocks to a financial firm's value process, and then study capital investments in preventive and corrective controls to mitigate risk losses. The...

Governments are increasingly contracting with not-for-profit providers to deliver on policy objectives. These organisations are perceived to be cost-effective, flexible and close to their communities. Yet contracting out raises financial, service and reputational risks. Public sector funders...