Journal of Risk Model Validation
ISSN:
1753-9579 (print)
1753-9587 (online)
Editor-in-chief: Steve Satchell
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Need to know
- Quantifying model risk is of significant concern for both banks and regulators.
- Relative entropy allows model misspecification robustness to be numerically quantified.
- Relative entropy techniques can complement traditional model risk quantification techniques where a specific direction or range of model misspecification is considered.
- Credit loss forecasting models typically represent the largest loss contribution for banks and are therefore the focus for model risk measurement in this paper.
Abstract
Being able to understand and quantify the model risk inherent in loss-projection models used in macroeconomic stress testing and impairment estimation is a significant concern for both banks and regulators. The application of relative entropy techniques allows model misspecification robustness to be numerically quantified using exponential tilting toward an alternative probability law. Employing a particular loss-forecasting model, we quantify the worst-case-loss term structures of that model, yielding insights into the behavior of the worst-case scenario. In general, the worst case obtained represents an upward scaling of the term structure consistent with the exponential tilting adjustment. The relative entropy approach to model risk we use has its foundation in economics with robust forecasting analysis, and it has recently started to be applied in risk management. This technique can complement traditional model risk quantification techniques, where a specific direction or range of model misspecification reasons are usually considered, such as model sensitivity analysis, model parameter uncertainty analysis, competing models and conservative model assumptions.
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