In this paper we propose a new methodology to enhance the discriminatory power of backtesting for counterparty credit risk (CCR) by effectively removing strong autocorrelation in overlapping data. It is assessed by the benchmark result of non-overlapping backtesting data with the same number of...

The paper includes our recent findings on the backtesting for the EPE model to obtain the internal-model method approval. The challenge on the EPE backtesting is to obtain the statistical appealing threshold for overlapping horizons. We obtain the empirical thresholds using the random number...

In this article we introduce a new framework for counterparty risk model backtesting based on Bayesian methods. This provides a conceptually sound approach for analyzing model performance which is also straightforward to implement. We show that our methodology provides important advantages over...

"In this paper the behaviour of credit default swaps (CDS) are analysed for a sample of firms and support found for the theoretical equivalence of CDS prices and credit spreads. When this is violated, the CDS price can be viewed as an upper bound on the price of credit risk, while the spread...

Executive compensation is designed to create incentives for CEOs to act in the best interest of shareholders. Short-term (bonus) and equity-based incentives induce risk taking behaviors of the CEO that could further change a firm's risk exposure. This article examines the linkage between...