Paper Title
Copula-Based Credit Risk Assessment for a Large Scale Small to Medium Enterprises' Financial Data
Abstract
A copula is a general tool to construct multivariate distributions and to investigate dependence structure between
random variables. A copula is a function expressing multivariate simultaneous distribution by dividing it into a peripheral
distribution of each variable and a dependence structure between distributions. In the situation where the creditworthiness of
each business loan depends on each other, it would have a strong dependency structure between distributions at the tail of the
distribution. Since it is possible to incorporate strong dependence into risk assessment by using copulas, it draws attention in
financial practice.The purpose of this study is to estimate probability of default of companies using copulas, assuming that
the estimated probability of default of a company changes between years. The correlation structures would be different, so
the authors find out which copulas’ shape is closely estimated by simulation.
Index Terms - Credit risk, Estimated probability ofdefault, Copulas.