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RiskMetrics Journal


  • Volatility Forecasts and At-the-Money Implied Volatility
  • Inflation Risk Across the Board
  • Extensions of the Merger Arbitrage Risk Model
  • Measuring the Quality of Hedge Fund Data
  • Capturing Risks of Non-transparent Hedge Funds
  • Portfolio Credit Spread Risk
  • Backtesting Risk Methodologies from One Day to One Year
  • Measuring Risk on Credit Indices: On the Use of the Basis
  • Developing an Equity Factor Model for Risk
  • Merger Arbitrage Risk Model
  • Distribution of Defaults in a Credit Basket
  • Risk Budgeting for Pension Plans
  • Incorporating Equity Derivatives into the CreditGrades Model
  • Adaptations of Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques to American Option Pricing
  • Fixed Income Risk Attribution
  • Issues int the Pricing of Synthetic CDOs
  • Risk Management for Non-Financial Corporations
  • Examples and Applications of Closed-Form CDO Pricing
  • Liquidity Risk: Current Research and Practice
  • Interest-Rate Expectations in Recent Months
  • Specific risk for long-term horizons
  • Risk attribution for asset managers
  • Risk and expectations in the crude oil market in recent months
  • Estimating issuer-specific risk for corporate bonds
  • Estimation of zero-coupon curves in DataMetrics
  • A primer on Vega risk measurement in RiskManager
  • Market developments in the first half of 2002
  • Mark-to-market, oversight, and sensitivity analysis of CDOs
  • Importance sampling for credit portfolio simulation
  • Economic capital allocation for credit risk
  • Financial markets in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks
  • The one-factor CreditMetrics® Model in the new Basel capital accord
  • Term structure estimation for U.S. corporate bond yields
  • Risk budgeting for corporate bond portfolios
  • Comparing methods to approximate mortgage-backed security VaR
  • Two articles in users' corner
  • Calculating VaR through quadratic approximations
  • Hypothesis test of default correlation and application to specific risk
  • A comparison of stochastic default rate models
  • Two articles in users' corner
  • Toward a better estimation of wrong-way credit exposure
  • Do implied volatilities provide early warning for market stress?
  • A stress test to incorporate correlation breakdown

CreditMetrics Monitor


  • Three articles in CreditManager® users' corner
  • Conditional approaches for CreditMetrics portfolio distributions
  • The valuation of basket credit derivatives
  • An analytic approach for credit risk analysis under correlated defaults
  • Extended "Constant Correlations" in CreditManager 2.0
  • Treating collateral and guarantees in CreditManager 2.0
  • Credit derivatives in CreditMetrics
  • Commercial paper defaults and rating transitions, 1972 - 1998
  • A one-parameter representation of credit risk and transition matrices
  • Managing credit risk with CreditMetrics and credit derivatives
  • The effect of systematic credit risk on loan portfolio value-at-risk and loan pricing
  • Syndicated bank loan recovery
  • Uses and abuses of bond default rates
  • Errata to the first edition of CreditMetrics Technical Document

RiskMetrics Monitor


  • How the formation of the EMU will affect RiskMetrics
  • Overview of EMU, resulting changes in the RiskMetrics methodology, and a tool to conduct stress testing on EMU-related scenarios
  • A methodology to stress correlations
  • What risk managers should know about mean reversion and jumps in prices
  • An investigation into term structure estimation methods for RiskMetrics
  • When is a portfolio of options normally distributed?
  • A detailed analysis of a simple credit exposure calculator
  • A general approach to calculating VaR without volatilities and correlations
  • On measuring credit exposure
  • The effect of EMU on risk management
  • Streamlining the market risk measurement process
  • Testing RiskMetrics volatility forecasts on emerging markets data
  • When is non-normality a problem? The case of 15 time series from emerging markets
  • Accounting for "Pull to Par" and "Roll Down" for RiskMetrics cashflows
  • How accurate is the Delta-Gamma Methodology?
  • VaR for basket currencies
  • An improved methodology for measuring VaR that allows for a more realistic model of financial return tail distributions
  • A value-at-risk analysis of currency exposures underscoring the limitations of standard VaR when underlying market return distributions deviate significantly from normality
  • Estimating index tracking error for equity portfolios
  • A Look at two methodologies which use a basic delta-gamma parametric VaR precept but achieve similar results to simulation
  • Basel committee revises market risk supplement to 1988 capital accord
  • Exploring alternative volatility forecasting methods for the standard RiskMetrics monthly horizon
  • How accurate are the risk estimates in portfolios which contain treasury bills proxied by LIBOR data?
  • A solution to the standard cash flow mapping algorithm which sometimes leads to imaginary roots
  • Mapping and estimating VaR in interest rate swaps
  • Adjusting correlation from nonsynchronous data

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