Credit Crisis Lessons for Modelers

Abstract

Does the credit crisis mean the heralded Age of the Quant has passed? Much of the blame for the current credit crisis is being laid at the feet of the analysts responsible for modeling and evaluating the innovative debt securities driving the massive losses for financial institutions. How was the modeling of these securities so wrong?

Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management

Page
87-88
Year
2008
Categories
Actuarial Applications and Methodologies
Enterprise Risk Management
Publications
Risk Management: The Current Financial Crisis, Lessons Learned and Future Implications