Predicting Loss Distributions for Small-Size Defaulted-Debt Portfolios Using a Convolution Technique that Allows Probability Masses to Occur at Boundary Points

Chih-Kang Chu and Ruey-Ching Hwang ()
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Chih-Kang Chu: National Dong Hwa University
Ruey-Ching Hwang: National Dong Hwa University

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2019, vol. 56, issue 1, No 4, 95-117

Abstract: Abstract To predict the loss distribution of a small-size defaulted-debt portfolio, this research applies the central limit theorem (CLT) to predicted loss given default (LGD) distributions and exposures of defaulted-debts in the portfolio. However, when the portfolio size is not large enough, the results from using the CLT can lead to the wrong inference. To overcome this problem, we propose a convolution procedure that iteratively combines predicted LGD distributions and exposures of defaulted-debts in the portfolio together. Our convolution procedure allows predicted LGD distributions to have probability masses at boundary points. To illustrate the proposed procedure, we collect 4962 defaulted-debts from Moody’s Default and Recovery Database and use the censored transformed beta model to predict their LGD distributions. Using an expanding rolling window approach, our empirical results confirm that the proposed convolution procedure has better and more robust out-of-sample performance than its alternative based on the CLT, in the sense of yielding more accurate predicted loss distributions of defaulted-debt portfolios. Thus, it is useful for pricing and managing defaulted-debt portfolios.

Keywords: Central limit theorem; Conditional independence; Convolution; Defaulted-debt portfolio; Loss given default distribution; Unconditional distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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