Journal of Risk Model Validation
ISSN:
1753-9579 (print)
1753-9587 (online)
Editor-in-chief: Steve Satchell
Need to know
- We present a Bayesian backtesting framework for CCR models that addresses a number of limitations of the common backtesting approach based on null hypothesis significance testing.
- The approach is conceptually sound, more powerful than the classical alternative and makes use of information gathered over the course of the backtesting process.
- Bayesian methods enable us to assess which aspects of a model are misspecified in addition to the degree of misspecification and the uncertainty around this estimate.
Abstract
We introduce a new framework for counterparty risk model backtesting based on Bayesian methods. This provides a conceptually sound approach for analyzing model performance that is also straightforward to implement. We show that our methodology provides important advantages over a typical, classical backtesting setup. In particular, we find that the Bayesian approach outperforms the classical one in identifying whether a model is correctly specified, which is the principal aim of any backtesting framework. The power of the methodology is due to its ability to test individual parameters and thus identify not only the degree of misspecification but also which aspects of a model are misspecified. This greatly facilitates the impact assessment of model issues as well as their remediation.
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