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Default risk: Poisson mixture and the business cycle

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  • Chiara Pederzoli

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    As emphasized by the introduction of Basel II, the macroeconomic factors strongly affect credit risk variables. In order to account for the business cycle in a forward-looking way, a macroeconomic forecast can be introduced in the estimation of credit risk variables. This work proposes to model the distribution of the default rate as a mixture distribution which accounts for a binary representation of the business cycle: the distribution changes according to the estimated probability of recession over the credit horizon considered.

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    Paper provided by Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Facoltà di Economia "Marco Biagi" in its series Centro Studi di Banca e Finanza (CEFIN) (Center for Studies in Banking and Finance) with number 07052.

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    Length: pages 14
    Date of creation: Jun 2007
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    Handle: RePEc:mod:wcefin:07052

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    Keywords: default risk; Poisson mixture; business cycle;

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