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Simulated determination of credit risk in portfolio terms

Janecskó, Balázs - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLIX (2002) 7, pp. 664-676

The type of risk that poses the greatest danger to the profitability of commercial banks is credit risk. In simplified … of likelihood, how the risk is distributed among sub-portfolios compiled according to various criteria, and how the … individual loans contribute to the total portfolio risk. The first step towards answering this is to devise an economic model …

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Estimating the risk-adjusted capital is an affair in the tails

Canestraro, Davide; Dacorogna, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

(Re)insurance companies need to model their liabilities' portfolio to compute the risk-adjusted capital (RAC) needed to … frameworks of both Solvency II and the Swiss Solvency Test, we deal with two risk measures: the Value-at-Risk and the expected … choice of the risk measure. …

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Modell zur Maximierung des Endvermögens unter gleichzeitiger Sicherstellung intertemporärer Vermögenserhaltung/Solvenz

Scholtz, Hellmut D. - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2009-09), pp. 496-505

Es werden die mathematischen Einflussgrößen risikobehafteter Investments auf die Vermögensentwicklung analysiert. Danach muss bei solchen Anlagen das Verhältnis Gewinn/Verlust einen berechenbaren Mindestbetrag ausmachen und die Anlagehöhe darf in Prozent vom Vermögen einen bestimmten Wert...

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Nonlinear Innovations and Impulse Responses.

Gourieroux, C.; Jasiak, J. - 1999

This paper introduces a notion on nonlinear innovation for the ananlysis of nonlinear dynamics. We show that nonlinear processes can be represented as functions of current and lagged values of nonlinear innovations.

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Country and Industry Dynamics in Stock Returns

Catão, Luis A. V.; Timmermann, Allan G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

An important question in international finance is to what extent stock return volatility is influenced by country location, industry affiliation, and global factors. This Paper develops a new methodology to measure these effects, in which portfolios mimicking ‘pure’ country and industry...

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Mutual Funds and Segregated Funds: A Comparison

Palombizio, Ennio A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

limited amount of risk. Segregated Funds, which are, simply put, mutual funds with additional features, have grown in …

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Applying Markowitz's Critical Line Algorithm

Niedermayer, Andras; Niedermayer, Daniel - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2007

We provide a Matlab quadratic optimization tool based on Markowitz's critical line algorithm that significantly outperforms standard software packages and a recently developed operations research algorithm. As an illustration: For a 2000 asset universe our method needs less than a second to...

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Optimal funding and asset allocation rules for defined-benefit pension plans

Harrison, J. Michael; Sharpe, William F. - In: Financial aspects of the United States pension system, (pp. 91-105). 1983

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THE CASE AGAINST JIVE

Davidson, Russell; MacKinnon, James - Department of Economics, McGill University - 2006

We perform an extensive series of Monte Carlo experiments to compare the performance of the "Jacknife Instrumental Variables Estimator", or JIVE, with that of the more familiar 2SLS and LIML estimators. We find no evidence to suggest that JIVE should ever be used. It is always more dispersed...

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Empirical investigation and modeling of a financial market after a crash

Lillo, Fabrizio; Mantegna, Rosario N. - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002

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