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Buffered Probability of Exceedance (bPOE) Ratings for Synthetic Instruments

  • University of Florida

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Abstract

Credit Rating is an important characteristic of company in financial market. Investors determine the appropriate yields (required return) for the assets such as Bonds and CDO tranches, based on credit rating. Current methodology for measuring credit rating for synthetic instruments is based on probability of exceedance concept. The probability of exceedance has several drawbacks as a measure of risk. The most important is that it does not measure the magnitude of loss in the event of default. Therefore, financial instruments with very different exposures in the event of default may have the same rating. This paper illustrates, how the new measure called Buffered Probability of Exceedance (bPOE) can be used to calculate the credit ratings. The bPOE has exceptional qualitative and quantitative characteristics, compared to the probability of exceedance. bPOE is sensitive to the thickness of the tail of the loss distribution. Therefore, the exposure in the event of default impacts the ratings based on bPOE.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Service Science - Proceedings of the 2018 INFORMS International Conference on Service Science
EditorsHui Yang, Robin Qiu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages211-216
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783030047252
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventINFORMS International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2018 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Nov 3 2018Nov 3 2018

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Business and Economics
ISSN (Print)2198-7246
ISSN (Electronic)2198-7254

Conference

ConferenceINFORMS International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period11/3/1811/3/18

Keywords

  • bPOE
  • Buffered probability of exceedance
  • CD
  • Collateralized debt obligation
  • Conditional Value-at-Risk
  • CVaR
  • POE
  • Probability of exceedance
  • Ratings

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