Quantitative analysis
The stochastic volatility Libor market model
Interest rates
Pro-cyclicality in the new Basel Accord
Could Basel II worsen recessions? By backtesting the proposed capital rules to the last recession, D. Wilson Ervin and Tom Wilde argue that the increased risk sensitivity of loan portfolio regulatory capital in the new Accord could have unwelcome…
Core satellite investing: harmony through separation
Asset allocation
Firm-wide risk management for funds
Firm-wide risk
The destructive power of ‘best practice’
Capital management
Image options and the road to barriers
Barrier options
VAR: who contributes and how much?
Portfolio risk management
Probing granularity
The granularity adjustment, which adjusts risk weightings for credit portfolio diversification, is one of Basel II’s key modelling assumptions. Here, Tom Wilde uncovers a weakness in this assumption arising from the differences in the underlying credit…
Beyond Basel II - operational risk management comes of age
Integrated, enterprise-wide, operational risk management can offer much more than just regulatory compliance.
Changing history
Equity risk management
How dependent are defaults?
Credit portfolio management
Plugging into electricity
Commodities
Factoring in volume risk
Corporate risk management
Reconciling ratings
Basel II
Reconciling ratings
How should internal credit ratings be calibrated to long-term default rates? This multibillion-dollar question is at the heart of the debate over Basel’s IRB approach. In thisarticle, Stefan Blochwitz and Stefan Hohl use simulations to demonstrate wide…
Regulatory capital volatility
Basel II
Weighting for risk
Basel II
IRBapproach explained
Basel II
Weighting for Risk
Basel has recognised that collateral and seniority give banks an advantage when an obligor defaults. Here, Jon Frye argues that the proposal may encourage banks to lend on the collateral – a practice that could threaten their own survival – and proposes…
Regulatory capital volatility
When the consultation period ends, what calibration of risk weights will Basel finally decide on? Here, Esa Jokivuolle and Samu Peura demonstrate that the ratings sensitivity of risk weights may require Basel to think more carefully about the…
IRB approach explained
At the end of this month, the consultation period for the new Basel Accord on bank capital will end. We have prepared a technical section this month devoted to various issues surrounding Basel II. In the first paper, Tom Wilde sheds light on the…
Hedging electoral risk
New markets
Modelling default correlation
Credit risk