In: Statistics and Probability
1. If your firm calculates its Economic Capital due to Market Risk, Credit Risk, Operational Risk for the next 1 year as follows . . . (10 points)
Market Risk $323,000
Credit Risk $515,000
Operational Risk $ 83,270
. . . what will be the firm's total Economic Capital . . .
a. If the correlations among the three types of capital are believed to be :
Market-Credit 0.4
Market-Operation 0.1
Credit-Operation 0.2
b. If the correlations are all equal to 1.0:
d. If you don't know the correlations, which measure is probably too high? which is probably too low? what might be a reasonable level to use?