Modelling the rating process and rating validation
Type Research Project
Duration Nov. 1, 2007 - Feb. 28, 2009
- Institute for Banking and Finance IN (Former organization)
- Institute for Statistics and Mathematics IN (Details)
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It is the main objective of this project to thoroughly formulate a statistical
framework for the rating process in a risk-based lending environment and show
its consequences for validation techniques. One of the most important features
of our framework is modeling the intertemporal information structure, or, in
probabilistic terms, the filtration of the probability space. Traditional models
assume that at the observation date the information about the realization of
the default indicator (i.e., whether a borrower is creditworthy or not, or, if a
borrower will default or not during a given period) is available in general, though
not always accessible to all agents. In the canonical case information about the
default indicator is costly, but (at least partially) available (see e.g. Ruckes
(2004)). This assumption is reflected in popular validation measures, like the
Accuracy Ratio or Gini Coefficient, where the discriminatory power of rating
systems is benchmarked against a perfect rating system which has perfect exante
knowledge about the realizations of the default indicator. In our framework
we assume that the information about the default indicator is revealed after
the observation date, either continuously over time or at the end of a certain
time period. In such a framework, even the optimal processing of the available
information cannot produce perfect forecasts of the default indicator. Hence,
a perfect rating system is a rating system which produces optimal (in a sense
which has to be defined later) estimates of the expected value of the default
indicator, i.e., the PD. Therefore, any validation method has to focus on a
rating models ability to provide optimal PD estimates (calibration quality, see
Bank for International Settlements (2005)).
Publications
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
2009 | Grün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Hornik, Kurt, Leitner, Christoph, Pichler, Stefan. 2009. A Dynamic Latent Variable Approach to Validate Credit Rating Systems. Workshop Risikomanagement, Universität Innsbruck - Obergurgl, Österreich, 02.04.-04.04.. | (Details) | |
Grün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Hornik, Kurt, Leitner, Christoph, Pichler, Stefan. 2009. A Latent Variable Approach to Validate Credit Rating Systems using R. R Finance 2009, Chicago, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 24.04.-25.04.. | (Details) | ||
Hornik, Kurt, Jankowitsch, Rainer, Leitner, Christoph, Lingo, Manuel, Pichler, Stefan, Winkler, Gerhard. 2009. A Latent Variable Approach to Validate Credit Rating Systems. Workshop Risikomanagement, Universität Innsbruck - Obergurgl, Österreich, 02.04.-04.04. | (Details) | ||
Grün, Bettina, Hofmarcher, Paul, Hornik, Kurt, Leitner, Christoph, Pichler, Stefan. 2009. Extending the Latent Variable Approach to Rating Validation - Including Finite Mixture Distributions and Censored Observations. Workshop Risikomanagement, Universität Innsbruck - Obergurgl, Österreich, 02.04.-04.04.. | (Details) | ||
2008 | Grün, Bettina, Hornik, Kurt, Jankowitsch, Rainer, Leitner, Christoph, Lingo, Manuel, Pichler, Stefan, Winkler, Gerhard. 2008. A Latent Variable Approach to Rating Model Validation. Symposium on Rating Model Validation, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Österreich, 15.05.-15.05. | (Details) | |
Hornik, Kurt, Jankowitsch, Rainer, Leitner, Christoph, Lingo, Manuel, Pichler, Stefan, Winkler, Gerhard. 2008. Validation by Means of Benchmarking: A Multi-Rater Approach to Validation. Symposium on Rating Model Validation, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Österreich, 15.05.-15.05.. | (Details) | ||
Lingo, Manuel, Winkler, Gerhard. 2008. Discriminatory power an obsolete validation criterion?. 15th Global Finance Conference, Hangzhou, China, 18.05-20.05. | (Details) |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
2008 | Hornik, Kurt, Jankowitsch, Rainer, Leitner, Christoph, Lingo, Manuel, Pichler, Stefan, Winkler, Gerhard. 2008. A Latent Variable Approach to Validate Credit Rating Systems. | (Details) |