Glasserman, Paul; Heidelberger, Philip; Shahabuddin, Perwez - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 10, pp. 1349-1364
This paper describes, analyzes and evaluates an algorithm for estimating portfolio loss probabilities using Monte Carlo simulation.Obtaining accurate estimates of such loss probabilities is essential to calculating value-at-risk, which is a quantile of the loss distribution. The method employs a...