How to Find Plausible, Severe and Useful Stress Scenarios

Thomas Breuer, Martin Jandacka, Klaus Rheinberger (klaus.rheinberger@fhv.at) and Martin Summer
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Thomas Breuer: Research Centre PPE, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg
Martin Jandacka: Research Centre PPE, Fachhochschule Vorarlberg

International Journal of Central Banking, 2009, vol. 5, issue 3, 205-224

Abstract: We give a precise operational definition to three requirements the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision specifies for stress tests: plausibility and severity of stress scenarios as well as suggestiveness of risk-reducing actions. The basic idea of our approach is to define a suitable region of plausibility in terms of the risk-factor distribution and search systematically for the scenario with the worst portfolio loss over this region. One key innovation compared with the existing literature is the solution of two open problems. We suggest a measure of plausibility that is not prone to the problem of dimensional dependence of maximum loss and we derive a way to consistently deal with situations where some but not all risk factors are stressed. We show that setting the nonstressed risk factors to their conditional expected value given the value of the stressed risk factors maximizes plausibility among the various approaches used in the literature.

JEL-codes: C15 G20 G28 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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