Heterogeneous credit portfolios and the dynamics of the aggregate losses (Q841485)
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Heterogeneous credit portfolios and the dynamics of the aggregate losses (English)
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17 September 2009
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The authors study the impact of contagion in a network of firms credit risk. An intensity based model is described where the homogeneity assumption is broken by introducing a \textit{random environment} that makes it possible to take into account the idiosyncratic characteristics of the firms. The model goes behind the identification of groups of firms that can be considered basically exchangeable. Despite this heterogeneity assumption the model has the advantage of being totally tractable. The aim is to quantify the losses that a bank may suffer in a large credit portfolio. Relying on a large deviation principle on the trajectory space of the process, the authors state a suitable law of large numbers and a central limit theorem useful for studying large portfolio loses. Simulation results are provided as well as applications to portfolio loss distribution analysis.
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central limit theorems in Banach spaces
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credit contagion
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intensity based models
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large deviations
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large portfolio loses
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random environment
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