When uncertainty decouples expected and unexpected losses

John Juselius and Nikola A. Tarashev

No 4/2022, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers from Bank of Finland

Abstract: A parsimonious extension of a well-known portfolio credit-risk model allows us to study a salient stylized fact - abrupt switches between high- and low-loss phases - from a risk-management perspective. As uncertainty about phase switches increases, expected losses decouple from unexpected losses, which reflect a high percentile of the loss distribution. Banks that ignore this decoupling have shortfalls of loss-absorbing resources, which is more detrimental if the portfolio is more diversified within a phase. Likewise, the risk-management benefits of improving phase-switch forecasts increase with diversification. The analysis of these findings leads us to an empirical method for comparing the degree of within-phase default clustering across portfolios.

Keywords: Expected loss provisioning; Bank capital; Unexpected losses; Credit cycles; Portfolio credit risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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