Choosing a proper external risk measure is of great regulatory importance, as exemplified in the Basel II and Basel III … Accord which use Value-at-Risk (VaR) with scenario analysis as the risk measures for setting capital requirements. We argue a … good external risk measure should be robust with respect to model misspecification and small changes in the data. A new …

(2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using Markov chains to model the transition between different employment states … systems as those established in the EU are able to offset the negative impact of unemployment risk on the portfolio …

Households can rely on private savings or on public unemployment insurance to hedge against the risk of becoming … risk on households’ equity holdings. When incorporating long-term unemployment, the US-equity share drops. This negative … significantly alter portfolio decisions. We show that different responses of portfolios to unemployment risk can be attributed to …

In this paper we investigate the interaction between a credit portfolio and another risk type, which can be thought of … as market risk. Combining Merton-like factor models for credit risk with linear factor models for market risk, we … analytically calculate their interrisk correlation and show how inter-risk correlation bounds can be derived. Moreover, we …