Questions tagged [default-probability]
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How to apply Kalman Filter to GDP data?
Once reverted the Merton/Vasicek formula I could compute the $PD^{PIT}$ for IFRS9 as
$PD^{PIT}_i(z) = \Phi \left( \phi^{-1}(PD^{TTC}_i) \sqrt{1-\rho_i} + \sqrt{\rho_i}z\right)$
The main issue is to ...
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Bond prices and probability of default
We learn in Finance 101 that the price of a bond is the present value of future cash flows. There is no mention of default risk. Still, bond prices move each day, without a change in the payment ...
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Longer / Shorter period loss
I am struggling on I think a quite simple issue.
Let's take a portfolio of 100 loans.
If we assume they are independent, each loan’s default is a Bernoulli with parameter $p=0.01$ over a certain time ...
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Use of PIT vs TTC PD in a Merton one-factor model
Under one-factor Merton framework, like Basel, you use unconditional PDs as input of the portfolio model and this "unconditional" means it is a TTC-PD.
Given a i-th borrower, the default ...
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Concavity of Cumulative Accuracy Profile curve
I am writing my thesis for the default probability estimation in low default portfolios. One way to estimate the probability of default is from the Cumulative Accuracy Profile (CAP) curve (Marco Van ...
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CVA Probability of default
I have to estimate CVA for an exotic option. I used Monte Carlo method to price the option with 1000 number of simulation, maturity = 1 year, and 360 time steps. So I have two questions:
I've read in ...
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Definition of defaults via unobserved assets
Sorry if my question is a bit basic. I am considering the default model as used eg in Vasicek (I think this goes back at least to Merton, though) that looks at an unobserved quantity modeling the ...
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A model for probability of credit rating change for a single issuer
I am looking to model the probability of a single issuer upgrading or downgrading it's credit rating at some time using historical data. I have done research and everything I have found so far are for ...
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Credit Migration: Risk [duplicate]
Hi I am given two tables of two tables showing data about fictional corporate business partners and relevant credit risk data – ID, rating, probability of default (PD, defined by rating), loss given ...
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Financial models under the defprobstrip() command in Matlab 2020a
what is the financial theoretical model below
- defprobstrip() - hazardrates() - survprobs()
contained in https://www.mathworks.com/help/fininst/examples/...
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CreditRisk+ spreadsheet implementation
I'm looking for an Excel spreadsheet where the CreditRisk+ model is implemented by means of a simple toy example, like the one the linked paper is referring to. If that spreadsheet is unavailable, I ...
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MATLAB - Probability Default with CDS Bootstrapping
I have not understood which "zerorati" I must use for the bootstrap of the PD from the curve of the CDS spreads. Can you help me please? I consulted O'Kane (2008) and Brigo and Mercurio (2006), but I'...
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Individual Credit Risk Data - Probability of Default
Given the current coronavirus-induced financial crisis and the possibility that it evolves in an economical crisis trough Companies (See: Credit Is the Scariest Market to Watch, Not the Dow or S&P)...
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Derivation of the 99.9% CI to a 1 in a 1000 year event
Keen to understand how BASEL derived the 1 in a 1000 year event from the CI 99.9%:
The confidence level is fixed at 99.9% (0.999) (i.e. a bank is expected to suffer losses that exceeds its capital ...
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Marginal Probability of Default for Credit Risk
I am working on a model to predict credit defaults. We have worked out PD's of clients using logistic regression.
When calculating the default amount, we have to convert PDs to marginal PDs. The ...
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PDs for negative credit spreads
My question is about credit spreads and the corresponding probability of default (PD).
One of the most simple relations between credit spreads and PDs is (see e.g. ch7 in Malz(2011))
$$
PD \approx \...
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Linking PD and LGD
I am trying to solve the equation for PD but struggling to bring it to the LHS. Any ideas as to how I can do that?
$$ LGD = \frac{\Phi \left [ \Phi^{-1}(DR) - \frac{\Phi^{-1}(PD)-\Phi^{-1}(PD\cdot ...
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PD and LGD for ECL calculations needs to be time dependent?
I'm studying the implementation of an expected credit loss (ECL) model. I have encountered a complication. Do I need to calculate a probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) with a time ...
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Implied probability of default (CDS spread)
After some googling, I have made some progress but not enough to come to a conclusion, so here we go:
Given that the CDS spread of a counterparty is 100bp (flat across time) and that the risk free ...
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PD calibration using Bayes formula
When calculating ECLs for loans under IFRS 9, one of the requirements is that the PD estimates have to be Point-in-time ($PD_{PIT}$) rather than through-the-cycle ($PD_{TTC}$).The setting is as ...
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Reproduce CDS Index Default Probability via Tranche [0,100] Probability
The tranche survival probability up to time $t$ between attachment $K_1$ and detachment $K_2$ is defined as
$$Q(t,K_1,K_2) \quad=\quad 1 - \mathbb{E}[L(t,K_1,K_2)]$$
with tranche loss function
$$L(...
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Are Muni REVENUE bonds secured or can the local gov. use the revenues for other purposes not paying the bond holders if its going bankrupt? [closed]
Municipal bonds are of two kinds: GO (General Obligation) Bonds or Revenue Bonds. My question on Revenue Bonds is: are the revenues from the specific project secured or can the local government use ...
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Using transaction data to predict default of the customer
I am trying to build a prediction model that utilize the huge transaction database of all the customers of a bank. My dataset currently looks like this:
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Normal default probability vs forward default probability/conditional default
is the diagram correct in calculating foward PD(conditional default) ? Or should the formula be
Probability of default = probability of survival x forward PD
Which of this is equal to marginal PD(...
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Credit spread model
Let $c(t,T):=-\frac{1}{T-t}[\mathrm{ln}(P_1(t,T))-\mathrm{ln}(P_0(t,T))]$, with:
$c$ measure of how a company is prone to fail;
$P_0(t,T):=e^{-r(T-t)}$ price of no-defaultable bond.
$P_1(t,T):=\...
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Poisson distribution and counting process
Let $\begin{Bmatrix}
N_t
\end{Bmatrix}_{(t\in[0,T])}:=\mathbb{I}_{(\tau \leq T)}:=k, \forall t \in [\tau_{k}\leq \tau_{k+1})\sim \mathrm{Po}(\lambda_{t}:=\int_{0}^{t}\lambda_{s}ds<+\infty)$ a ...
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CDS, default probability and bond price
When we calculate the implied default probabilities from CDS, can we use that information to price bonds?
I am getting familiar with Fixed Income. I saw textbooks using implied default probabilities ...
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Extracting Risk Neutral Default Probabilities using Option Adjusted Bond Prices
I am currently in a project trying to quantify default risk premia for US Corporate Bonds. The data I have consists of bond prices, and other information (i.e. YTM, OAS, Effective Duration, Maturity ...
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PD for ECL modelling
I am trying to understand the interrelations between the marginal, cumulative and conditional PDs (Probabilities of Default) when modelling ECLs (Expected Credit Losses). My current understanding is ...
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Portfolio - Default Probability
Suppose we want to identify the frequency of default on a portfolio with a 1000 loans. In the independence case, each firm’s default process follows a Bernoulli distribution with parameter $p = 0.01$. ...
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How to convert a vector of bonds ZC Spreads into default spreads
If we consider a set of bonds issued by a given entity that are quoted on the market, one can get for each of those bonds a ZC spread on top of reference swap curve (say the bonds are in USD and so we ...
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Gaussian copula: contract price
The hazard rates for A and B are 1% and 2% respectively. A contract pays you $1 if A defaults earlier than B. What is the correlation that minimizes the price of the contract?
I have not studied the ...
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Risk-return ratio using ML default probability
I have access to a very large bond database (>20m rows) where 50% of the set are matured bonds for which a dummy variable identifies whether the bond defaulted or not. The remaining 50% are 'live' ...
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Deriving default probability from CDS spread via stripping
I am currently trying to derive the cumulative probability of default from a CDS spread where the LGD is 30% and there are quarterly premiums including the accrued premium.
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How to estimate market based PD and LGD for small enterprises?
I am estimating CVA/DVA for derivatives...
How to estimate PD and LGD (or RR) based on market data for the small enterprises, if there is no external rating for them and they don't have bonds or ...
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Probability of default: issuer vs volume weighted
Some probability of default are issuer-weighted and some are volume-weighted. I don't understand what this means. I had a look into Moody's documentation available here:
https://www.moodys.com/sites/...
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Forecasting default rates using a macroeconomic model
I am trying to forecast corporate default rates using macroeconomic data. I have a few explanatory variables (all the variables are explained in figure 2), which range from 2000 to 2017. On this ...
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CVA - Where does the default probability (PD) come from?
Some authors use CDS from the market to derive the implied default probability (from a risk-neutral point of view).
I wonder: how exactly does a CDS reflect counterparty risk?
Let me put an ...
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How to determine the default probability of a county in a bond that is not in its native currency?
Disclaimer: This post is cross posted in here also.
Consider the following case:
Country P uses the currency Euro and gives p percent interest on a one year bond issued in Euro.
Country Q uses the ...
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credit risk - marginal default probability
I have been working on an assignment trying to calculate marginal/conditional probability of default. Using a logistic regression framework, I was able to compute the 12-month unconditional PD for ...
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Objective measure of highly leveraged firms using Debt-to-EBITDA ratio
I am looking for some kind of guidance what is generally considered a high or low ratio of Debt-to-Earnings before interest, tax, depreciations and amortisations (EBITDA). In a recent article by The ...
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Heuristic (or algorithm) for calculating a risk premium, given a probability of default and a “minimum” profit margin (expressed as a yield)
Assuming that I have means of determining and calculating the following metrics:
Risk (i.e. probability*) of a default to a particular borrower as P
Profit margin of X%
The profit margin is taken to ...
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Quantitative and regulatory aspects of portfolio integration in IRB credit portfolios
Say bank A buys a credit portfolio "B" (e.g. corporate loans or retail mortgage, ...) from bank B.
Bank A fulfills the the requirements of CRR (capital requirement regulation) for its existing ...
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Merton model for Probability of Default - What liabilities?
In Merton structural model for credit risk (74), the company's Assets and Liabilities are used to imply the default probability of the firm.
At the end, we don't need to know the assets value, and ...
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From quoted spread and coupon to upfront, and vice versa : which recovery rates and when?
Echoing the following question :
Markit recovery rates : assumed vs real
I would like to have a confirmation on my understanding on the matter.
Markit provides data for CDS, namely, for tenors ...
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PD validation in the low/no default setting
The topic of this question is the validation as prescribed in the Basel N ($N \ge 2$) framework. The task is given the probability of default $p_k$ for $K$ rating classes at time $t$ and the outcome ...
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Is it possible to sell protection on own asset with CDS?
Is it possible for a company to sell protection on their own assets or own country bonds by CDS?
The company can buy protection on those assets, but how about selling?
I suppose it can not sell. Is ...
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Simplifying an expectation function of default time and rates
I have the following expectation to calculate :
$$ \mathbf{E}\left[ e^{\int_{t_0}^{\tau} r_s ds} \mathbf{1}_{\{\tau < T\}}\right] $$
More precisely, I want to show that :
$$ \mathbf{E}\left[ e^{\...
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Conversion between physical and risk-neutral default probabilities
In the simple Merton structural credit risk model, the physical default probability is given by:
$$
DD_p = \frac{\ln(A / D) + (\mu -0.5\sigma^2)T}{\sigma \sqrt{T}}
$$
$$
P=N(-DD_p)
$$
Assuming that ...
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What relevance might the Modigliani-Miller theorem have for weight of evidence?
Suppose in computing weight of evidence based on financial ratios of some bank, one finds that their debt ratio and equity ratio have largely (you pick how large I guess) differing weights of evidence....
