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Compound scenarios: an efficient framework for integrated market–credit risk

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  • Ben De Prisco, Ian Iscoe, Yijun Jiang, Helmut Mausser

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ABSTRACT This paper describes an efficient three-tiered scenario generation framework for assessing joint market–credit risk with Monte Carlo simulation. The framework employs a set of so-called compound scenarios, having a tree-like structure comprising of three levels or tiers. The scenarios underlie correlated market and systemic credit factors and independent, idiosyncratic, credit risk factors. We obtain confidence intervals for the mean and quantiles of a portfolio loss distribution in the non-independent and identically distributed setting of compound scenarios. The confidence intervals derive from the asymptotic normality of the sample mean and sample quantile and a variance decomposition formula that expresses the asymptotic variance in terms of the number of samples from each of the three tiers. The resultant formula directly measures the impact of various sample sizes on the variance of the estimate, which is more efficient than the trial-and-error approach used by practitioners today. Moreover, the formula allows one to optimize the choice of sample sizes and to minimize the estimator’s variance subject to constraints on available time or computer resources. The results are illustrated with some numerical and empirical examples.

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