Retail loans and Basel II: Using portfolio segmentation to reduce capital requirements

Daniel Kaltofen, Stephan Paul and Stefan Stein

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, 2007, vol. 1, issue 1, 53-73

Abstract: This paper presents an innovative approach for grouping retail loans into homogeneous risk pools, which adheres to the provisions of the revised Basel II framework. The authors interpret Basel II using an efficient classification tree algorithm (recursive partitioning) and test it on a real data set of approximately 413,000 German auto loans. By classifying loans according to selective predictors of default, it is found that banks may achieve significant savings in terms of a lower regulatory capital requirement. Alternatively, this provides the opportunity to increase lending capacity.

Keywords: Basel II; retail portfolio; capital requirement; classification; CHAID (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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