Understanding the economic determinants of the severity of operational losses: A regularized generalized Pareto regression approach |
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Authors: | Julien Hambuckers Andreas Groll Thomas Kneib |
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Affiliation: | 1. Chair of Statistics, Georg‐August‐Universit?t G?ttingen, G?ttingen, Germany;2. Center for Quantitative Methods and Operation management, HEC Management School, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium;3. Faculty of Statistics, Technische Universit?t Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
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Abstract: | We investigate a novel database of 10,217 extreme operational losses from the Italian bank UniCredit. Our goal is to shed light on the dependence between the severity distribution of these losses and a set of macroeconomic, financial, and firm‐specific factors. To do so, we use generalized Pareto regression techniques, where both the scale and shape parameters are assumed to be functions of these explanatory variables. We perform the selection of the relevant covariates with a state‐of‐the‐art penalized‐likelihood estimation procedure relying on L1‐penalty terms. A simulation study indicates that this approach efficiently selects covariates of interest and tackles spurious regression issues encountered when dealing with integrated time series. Lastly, we illustrate the impact of different economic scenarios on the requested capital for operational risk. Our results have important implications in terms of risk management and regulatory policy. |
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