Lucas, André; Klaassen, Pieter; Spreij, Peter; … - 2001
Using a limiting approach to portfolio credit risk, we obtain analyticexpressions for the tail behavior of the … aretriggered by a general latent factor model involving systematic andidiosyncratic risk. We show explicitly how the tail behavior … of the distributionof these two risk factors relates to the tail behavior of the credit lossdistribution. Even if the …