Spanish Abstract: Calcular el riesgo de los activos líquidos puede ser útil para cualquier inversor que posea una cartera de inversión, pero también para las instituciones financieras, ya que las crisis de liquidez han estado detrás de muchas de las quiebras de entidades. Por ello, cada vez...

Asset market liquidity risk is a significant and perplexing subject and though the term market liquidity risk is used quite chronically in academic literature it lacks an unambiguous definition, let alone understanding of the proposed risk measures. To this end, this paper presents a review of...

The global financial crisis showed us that there is a need for appropriate identification and evaluation of implicit liquidity trading risks in investment portfolios. It is undeniable that many of the financial institution collapses, both in developed and emerging markets, as well as the...

En los últimos días, se han encendido todas las alarmas ante el riesgo de recesión de algunas de las principales economías del mundo (Alemania, Reino Unido, Italia, Brasil y México). La desaceleración afecta a varias regiones del mundo y puede llegar generalizarse, agravando la...

A raíz de la crisis financiera surgida en el sector inmobiliario de los Estados Unidos de América en 2008-2009, que desencadenó una grave falta de liquidez, y con ello, un efecto dominó que alcanzó otros aspectos de la economía global, y que generó crisis también en el mercado bursátil...

Credit migration or transition matrices, which characterize the expected changes in credit quality of obligors, are cardinal inputs to applications such as asset pricing and risk management. We propose a new metric for comparing these matrices (a mobility index) by first subtracting the identity...

In-spite of large volume of Contingent Credit Lines (CCL) in all commercial banks paucity of Exposure at Default (EAD) models, unsuitability of external data and inconsistent internal data with partial draw-down, has been a major challenge for risk managers as well as regulators for managing CCL...

This paper develops scenario optimization algorithms for the assessment of investable financial portfolios under crisis market outlooks. To this end, this research study examines from portfolio managers' standpoint the performance of optimum and investable portfolios subject to applying...

This paper fills a fundamental gap in commodity price risk management and optimal portfolio selection literatures by contributing a thorough reflection on trading risk modeling with a dynamic asset allocation process and under the supposition of illiquid and adverse market settings. This paper...

In many credit risk and pricing applications, credit transition matrix is modeled by a constant transition probability or generator matrix for Markov processes. Based on empirical evidence, we model rating transition processes as piecewise homogeneous Markov chains with unobserved structural...