Technical papers/Credit Risk
Getting CVA up and running
The credit value adjustment that crystallises counterparty risk in a derivatives price is generally thought of as an upfront payment, but could equally well be converted into a running premium in appropriate...
Many banks adjust the value of trades to reflect the possibility of their own default, with the counter-intuitive effect that a rise in their credit spread appears as a profit. Basel refuses to recognise...
Basel III has incorporated credit valuation adjustment (CVA) in calculations of regulatory capital for counterparty credit risk (CCR). CVA appears via a completely new CVA capital charge and a downward...
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Real-time counterparty credit risk management in Monte Carlo
Adjoint algorithmic differentiation can be used to implement the calculation of counterparty credit risk efficiently. Luca Capriotti, Jacky Lee and Matthew Peacock demonstrate how this powerful technique can be used to reduce the computational cost by...
Capturing credit correlation between counterparty and underlying
Kirk Buckley, Sascha Wilkens and Vladimir Chorniy present a semi-analytical approach for calculating the counterparty exposure of credit derivatives contracts conditional on the default of the counterparty, based on a Merton-type asset return model. The...
An analytical framework for credit portfolio risk measures
Monte Carlo simulation of credit-risky portfolios can be computationally intensive when calculating risk measures. Here, Mikhail Voropaev builds an analytical framework for calculating value-at-risk and expected shortfall for these portfolios that significantly...
Risky funding with counterparty and liquidity charges
Standard techniques for incorporating liquidity costs into the fair value of derivatives produce counter-intuitive results when the credit risk of the counterparty and the investor are added to the picture. Here, Massimo Morini and Andrea Prampolini show...
Capturing credit correlation between counterparty and underlying
Kirk Buckley, Sascha Wilkens and Vladimir Chorniy present a semi-analytical approach for calculating the counterparty exposure of credit derivatives contracts conditional on the default of the counterparty, based on a Merton-type asset return model. The...
Name concentration correction
Jasper Hommels and Viktor Tchistiakov describe the implementation of a simple analytical framework for the name concentration measurement that occurs in a credit portfolio due to imperfect diversification of idiosyncratic risk. The result is an intuitive...
Name concentration correction
Jasper Hommels and Viktor Tchistiakov describe the implementation of a simple analytical framework for the name concentration measurement that occurs in a credit portfolio due to imperfect diversification of idiosyncratic risk. The result is an intuitive...
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