scholarly journals Multivariate Exponential Distributions with Constant Failure Rates

1997 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asit P Basu ◽  
Kai Sun
Keyword(s):  
Failure Rates ◽  
Exponential Distributions ◽  
Multivariate Exponential

Marshall–Olkin distributions, subordinators, efficient simulation, and applications to credit risk

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 481-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunpeng Sun ◽  
Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga ◽  
Vadim Linetsky
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Exponential Distributions ◽  
Efficient Simulation ◽  
Failure Times ◽  
Independent Unit ◽  
Exponential Random Variables ◽  
Credit Portfolio ◽  
Multivariate Exponential ◽  
Passage Times

Abstract In the paper we present a novel construction of Marshall–Olkin (MO) multivariate exponential distributions of failure times as distributions of the first-passage times of the coordinates of multidimensional Lévy subordinator processes above independent unit-mean exponential random variables. A time-inhomogeneous version is also given that replaces Lévy subordinators with additive subordinators. An attractive feature of MO distributions for applications, such as to portfolio credit risk, is its singular component that yields positive probabilities of simultaneous defaults of multiple obligors, capturing the default clustering phenomenon. The drawback of the original MO fatal shock construction of MO distributions is that it requires one to simulate 2n-1 independent exponential random variables. In practice, the dimensionality is typically on the order of hundreds or thousands of obligors in a large credit portfolio, rendering the MO fatal shock construction infeasible to simulate. The subordinator construction reduces the problem of simulating a rich subclass of MO distributions to simulating an n-dimensional subordinator. When one works with the class of subordinators constructed from independent one-dimensional subordinators with known transition distributions, such as gamma and inverse Gaussian, or their Sato versions in the additive case, the simulation effort is linear in n. To illustrate, we present a simulation of 100,000 samples of a credit portfolio with 1,000 obligors that takes less than 18 seconds on a PC.

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