In Coherent Stress Testing: A Bayesian Approach, industry expert Riccardo Rebonato presents a groundbreaking new approach to this important but often undervalued part of the risk management toolkit. Based on the author's extensive work, research and presentations in the area, the book fills a...

I present a new approach to stress testing that combines the elicitation of subjective (marginal or conditional) probabilities of events with the specification of a simple causal structure among them. By so doing, stress events are placed in an approximate but coherent probabilistic framework....