The calculation of the capital charge for CVA risk, as required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, is … CDSs and CDS indices, and we also evaluate the level of basis risk still remaining under the hedge. We address several … questions: Is there enough diversification of risk in a global credit portfolio to allow for a good hedge? Is basis risk higher …

Risk (VaR) framework for the market risk capital of bank trading books. While the new rule boosts capital standards, the … capital requirement seems overly burdensome and not sufficiently responsive to market dynamics. It also increases model risk … and opaqueness of capital estimates. Chaudhury (2011) recently reported that the extreme tail risk of US stock portfolios …

evaluation of the methodological and empirical advances in the measurement of the extreme market risk. This paper argues that a … sustain the rise of financial markets. Thereafter, this review identified the value at risk (VaR) and VaR-based alternative … expected shortfall (ES) as the principal measures of extreme market risk. The deficiencies in the standard modelling approaches …

portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The brevity risk due to a … pandemic is similar to the property risk associated with catastrophic events such as earthquakes and hurricanes and the … security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance …

We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected … probability of occurrence. The corresponding risk measure, called Loss VaR (LVaR), determines the minimal capital injection that … and applications to capital adequacy, portfolio risk management and catastrophic risk are presented …

Under the Basel II regulatory framework non-negligible statistical problems arise when backtesting risk measures. In …. According to Escanciano and Olmo (2010, 2011) these problems persist when incorporating estimation and model risk by adjusting … adequacy of Value at Risk measures. One main finding indicates that backtests of all classes show heavy size distortions. These …

Firms seem to care a lot about "risk management": the practice of hedging risks whether they are correlated with market … risk or not. The standard reasons why widely held corporations might be averse to idiosyncratic risk are based on the …: idiosyncratic risk makes business decisions more difficult. Risk can increase the value of investment projects because of option …

loss risk. This study uses geometric Brownian motion (GBM) and Value at Risk (VaR; with the Monte Carlo Simulation approach …) on the daily closing price of JKII from 1 August 2020-13 August 2021 to predict the price and loss risk of JKII at 16 … 2.03%. Then, using VaR with a Monte Carlo Simulation approach, the loss risk prediction for 16 August 2021 (one …