Single-Name Concentration Risk Measurements in Credit Portfolios

Raffaella Calabrese () and Francesco Porro ()
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Raffaella Calabrese: University of Essex, Essex Business School
Francesco Porro: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi

A chapter in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, 2014, pp 89-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract For assessing the effect of undiversified idiosyncratic risk, Basel II has established that banks should measure and control their credit concentration risk. Concentration risk in credit portfolios comes into being through an uneven distribution of bank loans to individual borrowers (single-name concentration) or through an unbalanced allocation of loans in productive sectors and geographical regions (sectoral concentration). In this paper six properties that ensure a coherent measure of single-name concentration are identified. To evaluate single-name concentration risk in the literature, Herfindahl-Hirschman index has been used. This index represents a particular case of Hannah-Kay index proposed in monopoly theory. In this work the proof that Hannah-Kay index satisfies all the six properties is given. Finally, the impact of the elasticity parameter in Hannah-Kay index on the single-name concentration measure is analysed by numerical applications.

Keywords: Elasticity Parameter; Total Exposure; Idiosyncratic Risk; Large Exposure; Credit Portfolio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02499-8_8

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