December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 7m
English
Written in 1989; printed in Derivatives Pricing: The Classic Collection, P. Carr (ed.). London: Risk Books, 2004.
The cumulative probability that the percentage loss on a portfolio of n loans does not exceed
is

where
are given by an integral expression in Oldrich Vasicek's memo, “Probability of Loss on Loan Portfolio,” February 1987 (Chapter 17 of this volume). The substitution

in the integral gives
as

where

By the law of large numbers,

and therefore the cumulative distribution function of loan losses on a very large portfolio is
This is a highly skewed distribution. Its density is
Its mean, median, and mode are given by
The α-quantile, ...
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