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USING WEIGHTED DISTRIBUTIONS TO MODEL OPERATIONAL RISK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2016

Lourdes B. Afonso  and
Pedro Corte Real
Lourdes B. Afonso*
Affiliation:
Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, CMA, Faculdade Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Pedro Corte Real
Affiliation:
Depart. de Matemática, Faculdade Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal E-Mail: parcr@fct.unl.pt
*
E-Mail: lbafonso@fct.unl.pt
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Abstract

The quantification of operational risk has to deal with various concerns regarding data, much more than other types of risk which banks and insurers are obliged to manage. One of the main questions that worries both researchers and practitioners is the bias in the data on the operational losses amounts recorded. We support the assertions made by several authors and defend that this concern is serious when modeling operational losses data and, typically, is presented in all the databases. We show that it's possible, based on mild assumptions on the internal procedures put in place to manage operational losses, to make parametric inference using loss data statistics, that is, to estimate the parameters for the losses amounts, taking in consideration the bias that, not being considered, generates a two fold error in the estimators for the mean loss amount and the total loss amount, the former being overvalued and the last undervalued. In this paper, we do not consider the existence of a threshold for which, all losses above, are reported and available for analysis and estimation procedures. In this sense, we follow a different approach to the parametric inference. Here, we consider that the probability that a loss is reported and ends up recorded for analysis, increases with the size of the loss, what causes the bias in the database but, at the same time, we do not consider the existence of a threshold, above which, all losses are recorded. Hence, no loss has probability one of being recorded, in what we defend is a realist framework. We deduce the general formulae, present simulations for common theoretical distributions used to model (operational reported) losses amounts, estimate the impact for not considering the bias factor when estimating the value at risk and estimate the true total operational losses the bank incurred.

Keywords

Operational riskloss databiasweighted distributionsvalue at risk
Type
Research Article
Information
ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 469 - 485
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Copyright © Astin Bulletin 2016 

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