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Bottom-Up Default Analysis of Corporate Solvency Risk: An Application to Latin America

By Jorge A Chan-Lau, Cheng Hoon Lim, Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado, Bennett W Sutton, Melesse Tashu

June 8, 2017

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Jorge A Chan-Lau, Cheng Hoon Lim, Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado, Bennett W Sutton, and Melesse Tashu. Bottom-Up Default Analysis of Corporate Solvency Risk: An Application to Latin America, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper suggests a novel approach to assess corporate sector solvency risk. The approach uses a Bottom-Up Default Analysis that projects probabilities of default of individual firms conditional on macroeconomic conditions and financial risk factors. This allows a direct macro-financial link to assessing corporate performance and facilitates what-if scenarios. When extended with credit portfolio techniques, the approach can also assess the aggregate impact of changes in firm solvency risk on creditor banks’ capital buffers under different macroeconomic scenarios. As an illustration, we apply this approach to the corporate sector of the five largest economies in Latin America.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Banking, Commercial banks, Commodity prices, Corporate sector, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Liquidity indicators, Liquidity management, Loans, Prices

Keywords: Asset correlation, Asset ratio, Asset value of the loan obligor, Bank capital, Bank capital data, Commercial banks, Commodity prices, Corporate sector, Correlation value, Coverage ratio, Debt maturity, Debt ratio, Default risk, Economic scenarios, Firm, Forward intensity models, Global, Interest rate, Liquidity management, Loan default, Loans, Loss distribution, Macro-financial, PD contribution, Return on assets, Simulation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    33

  • Volume:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2017/133

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2017133

  • ISBN:

    9781484302811

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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