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Stress & Reverse Stress from a Macro Viewpoint Dr. Juan M. Licari Senior Director Head of Economic & Credit Analytics - EMEA

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Page 1: Stress & Reverse Stress from a Macro Viewpoint€¦ · 7 Stress Testing: 4- Modelling Methodologies 0.2.4.6.8 1 Transition % 2000m1 2002m1 2004m1 2006m1 2008m1 2010m1 2012m1 Month

Stress & Reverse Stress from a Macro Viewpoint

Dr. Juan M. Licari

Senior Director

Head of Economic & Credit Analytics - EMEA

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Stress & Reverse Stress Testing from a Macro Viewpoint

Key Stress Testing Challenges:

1- Dynamic vs. Static Approach to Stress Testing,

2- Partial vs. General Equilibrium,

3- Top-down vs. Bottom-up,4- Modelling Methodologies: Stress Testing vs.

Forecasting/Scoring,

5- Quantitative Reverse Stress Testing,

6- Looking beyond Capital & Solvency.

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Historic and predicted default rates (baseline),

% of balance at origination

Consolidated portfolio, vintages over time

Performance of Future Loans

Forecasted Performance of Existing LoansPerformance History

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Stress Testing: 1- Dynamic vs. Static Approach

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Stress Testing: 2- Partial vs. General EquilibriumExample of top-down stress testing approach, Bank of England’s RAMSI model

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Stress Testing: 2- Partial vs. General Equilibrium

» Interest rates

» Unemployment rates

» Income growth

» Profits (National Accounts)

» Share market

Small Business Loans

» Interest rates

» Unemployment rate

» Commodity/oil prices

» Price index for used cars

Auto-Equipment Loan/Lease

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» Mortgage rate difference from origination

» Unemployment rate

» Employment growth

» Income growth

» House price growth

» Home equity

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Stress Testing: 3- Top-down vs. Bottom-up

Issue: Loan level model can miss correlations and feedback effects

» Individual performance depends on other loans

» Difficult to model individuals within a system

Risk models could miss the forest for the trees

– Why not model the forest, model the trees and then make sure

the tree model agrees with forest projections?

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Stress Testing: 4- Modelling Methodologies

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Stress Testing: 5- Reverse Stress Testing

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Analyzing Factors’ Realizations Across Tail Events

Stress Testing: 5- Reverse Stress Testing

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Stress Testing: 5- Reverse Stress Testing

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UK Factor Analysis – Top 5 Factors

UK factor analysis – 21 macroeconomic series

Stress Testing: 5- Reverse Stress TestingLinking Factors’ Realizations to Macro Scenarios

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Stress Testing: 6- Looking beyond Capital & Solvency

Bank A Bank B

Bank D Bank C

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Case 1: Incomplete Markets Case 2: Complete Markets

Case 3: A Hybrid Market Structure

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(1) If a small institution fails, other peripheral banks are likely to suffer asset-liability mismatches. But the systemic risk involved is not as high. Large institutions should be able to absorb the original shock and stop the domino effects once it enters the core banking area.

(2) If the shock is to one of the large financial institutions, there is a secondary effect through the overall health of the financial economy that could put all institutions under tremendous pressure.

Though the core banking sub-sector is complete (bi-directional flows), the fact that it is highly concentrated poses severe challenges to the banking sector as a whole. It is not so much a direct domino effect between, say, Bank A1 and Bank A2, but an indirect

contagion risk: (2.a) Bank A1 affects the overall economy (as it is a big financial institution whose failure can put pressure on the local financial and labor markets), (2.b) the economy affects Bank A2 as an external shock, (2.c) Bank A2’s failure worsens the economic picture even more, (2.d) the economy affects Bank A3, etc.

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Stress Testing: 6- Looking beyond Capital & Solvency

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