Volume 5, Issue 3 September 2009

Introduction

Abstract

The events since autumn 2007 have highlighted a need to test the assumptions of industry risk measurement and pricing models and anticipate the potential impact of changes in financial market conditions that are significantly outside the bounds of historical norms. Stress testing is a generic term that is frequently used to describe a variety of techniques that are applied to assess the importance of assumptions that underlie economic models and forecasts.

Authors

  • Iman van Lelyveld

Other papers in this issue

Thomas Breuer and Martin Jandačka and Klaus Rheinberger and Martin Summer

Piergiorgio Alessandri and Prasanna Gai and Sujit Kapadia and Nada Mora and Claus Puhr

Eivind Bernhardsen and Bjørne Dyre Syversten

Klaus Duellmann and Martin Erdelmeier

Dietske Simons and Ferdinand Rolwes