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Workshop 'Concentration Risk in Credit Portfolios': Programme

Frankfurt/Eltville, 18-19 November 2005

Joint workshop of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Journal of Credit Risk.



Thursday, 17 November 2005
 Individual arrival of conference participants and check-in at the Bundesbank Training Centre (address: Erbacher Strasse 18, 65343 Eltville am Rhein, Tel.: +49 6123 901-0, Fax: +49 6123 901399)
19:30 – 21:30Buffet-style evening meal


Friday, 18 November 2005
8:00 – 8:30Registration
8:30 – 8:45Welcome address by Edgar Meister (Deutsche Bundesbank)
8:45 – 9:00Opening remarks by Michael Gordy (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
9:00 – 9:50A simple multi-factor "Factor Adjustment" for the treatment of diversification in credit capital rules (PDF, 35 pages, 1749 kb)
 Garcia Cespedes, Juan Carlos (BBVA)
 de Juan Herrero, Juan Antonio (BBVA)
 Kreinin, Alex (Algorithmics Inc)
 Rosen, Dan (The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences)
 Discussant:

Pykthin, Michael (Bank of America)
9:50 – 10:40The effects of name and sector concentrations on the distribution of losses for portfolios of large wholesale credit Exposures (PDF, 37 pages, 366 kb)
 Burton, Steve (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
 Chomsisengphet, Souphala (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency)
 Heitfield, Erik (Federal Reserve Board)
 Discussant:

Rösch, Daniel (University of Regensburg)
10:40 – 11:10Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00Dependent credit migrations (PDF, 30 pages, 530 kb)
 McNeil, Alexander John (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
 Wendin, Jonathan (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
 Discussant:

Couderc, Fabien (RiskMetrics Group, Inc.)
12:00 – 12:50Credit risk versus capital requirements under Basel II: are SME loans and retail credit really different? (PDF, 29 pages, 746 kb)
 Jacobson, Tor (Sveriges Riksbank)
 Lindé, Jesper (Sveriges Riksbank)
 Roszbach, Kasper (Sveriges Riksbank)
 Discussant:

Frye, Jon (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
12:50 – 14:15Lunch
14:15 – 15:05Underestimation of sector concentration risk by misassignment of borrowers (PDF, 17 pages, 432 kb)
 Morinaga, Satoshi (Financial Services Agency, Japan)
 Shiina, Yasushi (Financial Services Agency, Japan)
 Discussant:

Frye, Jon (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
15:05 – 15:55The joys of industrial diversification in the stock and Eurobond markets (PDF, 36 pages, 448 kb)
 Varotto, Simone (ICMA Centre, University of Reading)
 Discussant:

Raupach, Peter (Deutsche Bundesbank)
15:55 – 16:25Coffee break
16:25 – 17:15Credit risk concentrations under stress (PDF, 19 pages, 426 kb)
 Bonti, Gabriel (Deutsche Bank AG)
 Kalkbrener, Michael (Deutsche Bank AG)
 Lotz, Christopher (Bundesanstalt f¿r Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht)
 Stahl, Gerhard (Bundesanstalt f¿r Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht)
 Discussant:

Summer, Martin (Austrian National Bank)
17:15 – 18:15Panel discussion
 De Servigny, Arnaud (Standard & Poor's)
 Düllmann, Klaus (Deutsche Bundesbank)
 Fritz-Morgenthal, Sebastian (WestLB AG)
 Heitfield, Erik (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
 Rosen, Dan (The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences)
19:30Dinner with wine-tasting (Baron Knyphausen, Draiser Hof, Erbacher Strasse 28, 65346 Eltville-Erbach im Rheingau)


Saturday, 19 November 2005
9:00 – 9:50Common failings: how corporate defaults are correlated (PDF, 29 pages, 516 kb)
 Das, Sanjiv R (Santa Clara University)
 Duffie, Darrell (Stanford University)
 Kapadia, Nikunj (University of Massachusetts)
 Discussant:

Perraudin, William (Tanaka Business School)
9:50 – 10:40Risk contributions in an asymptotic multi-factor framework (PDF, 22 pages, 513 kb)
 Tasche, Dirk (Deutsche Bundesbank)
 Discussant:

Overbeck, Ludger (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
10:40 –11:10Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00Portfolio credit risk models with interacting default intensities: A Markovian approach (PDF, 27 pages, 620 kb)
 Backhaus, Jochen (University of Leipzig)
 Frey, Rüdiger (University of Leipzig)
 Discussant:

Rau-Bredow, Hans (Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
12:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00Transportation by bus to Frankfurt airport and Frankfurt main railway station