This paper combines multivariate density forecasts of output growth, inflation and interest rates from a suite of models. An out-of-sample weighting scheme based on the predictive likelihood as proposed by Eklund and Karlsson (2005) and Andersson and Karlsson (2007) is used to combine the...

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

1 Introduction -- 2. Financial Institutions : A Regulation review through the Risk Measurement prism -- 3. The Traditional Risk measures -- 4. Univariate and Multivariate Distributions -- 5. Extensions for Risk Measures: Univariate and Multivariate Approaches -- 6. Risks Measures and Dynamics --...