Contributions to credit risk

Optimisation of credit portfolios requires that risk contributions be quantified. However, there has been disagreement over which of three popular tail risk measures should be used. Here, Alexandre Kurth and Dirk Tasche offer a way forward, showing how to calculate all three measures in the context of CreditRisk+, and then applying the calculation to a set of sample portfolios, with interesting results.

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