Presentation to Securities Analysts of San Francisco and Global Association of Risk Professionals, San Francisco, CA, October 21, 2004

Welcoming Remarks to the Symposium on Asian Banking and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of Sanfrancisco, September 9, 2011

We find that covariance matrix forecasts for an international interest rate portfolio generated by a model that incorporates interest-rate level volatility effects perform best with respect to statistical loss functions. However, within a value-at-risk (VaR) framework, the relative performance...

The asymptotic single risk factor (ASRF) approach is a simplified framework for determining regulatory capital charges for credit risk and has become an integral part of how credit risk capital requirements are to be determined under the second Basel Accord. Within this approach, a key...

Presentation to the 18th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies—“Meeting the Challenges of the Financial Crisis”