On Infectious Model for Dependent Defaults
Risk Management
2013-01-03 v1 Computational Finance
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a two-sector Markovian infectious model, which is an extension of Greenwood's model. The central idea of this model is that the causality of defaults of two sectors is in both direction, which enrich dependence dynamics. The Bayesian Information Criterion is adopted to compare the proposed model with the two-sector model in credit literature using the real data. We find that the newly proposed model is statistically better than the model in past literature. We also introduce two measures: CRES and CRVaR to give risk evaluation of our model.
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@article{arxiv.1301.0186,
title = {On Infectious Model for Dependent Defaults},
author = {Jia-Wen Gu and Wai-Ki Ching and Tak-Kuen Siu and Harry Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0186},
year = {2013}
}