Paul Kupiec

American Enterprise Institute

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Capital Allocation for Portfolio Credit Risk

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Capital Allocation for Portfolio Credit Risk

FDIC Center For Financial Research Working Paper No. 2006-08, Revision of WP2005-04
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Apr 2005
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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economic capital, credit risk internal models, Basel II Internal Ratings Approach

Capital Allocation for Portfolio Credit Risk

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Apr 2005
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Economic capital, credit risk internal models, Basel II, Internal Ratings Approach

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Deposit Insurance, Bank Incentives, and the Design of Regulatory Policy

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Deposit Insurance, Bank Incentives, and the Design of Regulatory Policy

Finance and Economics Discussion Series FEDS Paper Number 98-10
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Jun 1998
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section
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Deposit Insurance, Bank Incentives, and the Design of Regulatory Policy

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, October 1998
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Nov 2007
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section
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Margin Requirements, Volatility, and Market Integrity: What Have We Learned Since the Crash?

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics Discussion Series FEDS PAPER NUMBER: (97-22)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Dec 1997
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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The Pre-Commitment Approach: Using Incentives to Set Market Risk Capital Requirements

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Jul 1997
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section
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The New Basel Capital Accord: The Devil is in the (Calibration) Details

IMF Working Paper No. 01/113
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Feb 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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bank regulation, Basel Accord, regulatory capital requirements, credit risk

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How Well Does the Vasicek-Basel Airb Model Fit the Data? Evidence from a Long Time Series of Corporate Credit Rating Data

FDIC Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 17 Dec 2009
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Portfolio Credit Risk Measurement, Corporate Ratings, Basel II, Vasicek Credit Risk Model, Economic Capital Allocation

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Financial Stability and Basel Ii

FDIC Center for Financial Research, Working Paper Number 2006-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Nov 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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credit risk measurement, credit risk capital allocation, Basel II

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Bank Failures and the Cost of Systemic Risk: Evidence from 1900-1930

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Working Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jun 2009
Paul Kupiec and Carlos D. Ramirez
American Enterprise Institute and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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bank failures, systemic risk, financial accelerator, vector autoregressions, Panic of 1907, non-bank commercial failures

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Internal Models, Subordinated Debt, and Regulatory Capital Requirements for Bank Credit Risk

IMF Working Paper No. 02/157
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Feb 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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regulatory capital requirements, credit VaR, subordinated debt, internal risk models

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Calibrating Your Intuition Capital Allocation for Market and Credit Risk

IMF Working Paper No. 02/99
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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value at risk market risk credit risk capital allocation

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Internal Models-Based Capital Regulation and Bank Risk-Taking Incentives

IMF Working Paper No. 02/125
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Feb 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Regulatory capital requirements, credit risk, credit VaR, internal models

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Testing for Systemic Risk Using Stock Returns

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Jan 2015
Paul Kupiec and Levent Guntay
American Enterprise Institute and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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systemic risk, conditional value at risk, CoVaR, marginal expected shortfall, MES, systemically important financial institutions, SIFIs

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Will TLAC Regulations Fix the G-SIB Too-Big-To-Fail Problem?

AEI Economic Policy Working Paper 2015-08
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2015
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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TLAC total loss absorbing capacity, G-SIBs, global systemically important banks, bail-in capital, SPOE, single point of entry strategy

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Taking the Risk Out of Systemic Risk Measurement

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2014
Levent Guntay and Paul Kupiec
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and American Enterprise Institute
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systemic risk, conditional value at risk, CoVaR, marginal expected shortfall, MES, systemically important financial institutions, SIFIs

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Can the 'Single Point of Entry' Strategy Be Used to Recapitalize a Failing Bank?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2014
Paul Kupiec and Peter J. Wallison
American Enterprise Institute and American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
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Dodd-Frank Act, Orderly Liquidation Authority, Single Point of Entry strategy, Orderly Liquidation Fund, bankruptcy, bank resolution

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Is Dodd Frank Orderly Liquidation Authority Necessary to Fix Too-Big-to-Fail?

AEI Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2015-09
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Oct 2015
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Reforming the Dodd-Frank Act, ending too-big-to-fail

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Capital for Concentrated Credit Portfolios

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 May 2015
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Portfolio diversification, idiosyncratic default risk, obligor concentration, Vasicek single common factor model of credit risk, credit value at risk, Basel bank capital requirements

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Fixing Prompt Corrective Action

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Jan 2016
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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Prompt Corrective Action, Bank Resolution, Deposit Insurance Fund losses

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Does Bank Supervision Impact Bank Loan Growth?

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 May 2015
Paul Kupiec, Yan Y. Lee and Claire M. Rosenfeld
American Enterprise Institute, FDIC, Division of Insurance and Research and College of William and Mary - Finance
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Bank supervision, bank loan growth, bank capital, bank liquidity

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Policy Uncertainty, Financial Stability, and Stress Testing

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Apr 2019
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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policy uncertainty, stress test, financial stability

21.

The Leverage Ratio Is Not the Problem

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Sep 2017
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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supplemental leverage ratio, Basel III, market liquidity, debt overhang, deposit insurance pricing

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Incentive Compensation for Risk Managers When Effort is Unobservable

AEI Economic Policy Working Paper 2013-07
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2014
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute
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risk management, incentive compensation, regulatory policy, deposit insurance

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Portfolio Diversification in Concentrated Bond and Loan Portfolios

Posted: 03 Apr 2015
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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Portfolio diversification, idiosyncratic default risk, obligor concentration, Vasicek single common factor model of credit risk, credit value at risk, Basel bank capital requirements

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A Generalized Single Common Factor Model of Portfolio Credit Risk

FDIC Center for Financial Research Working Paper Series
Posted: 02 Jul 2007
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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Credit risk measurement, portfolio credit risk, portfolio loss distribution

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Basel Ii: A Case for Recalibration

FDIC Center for Financial Resarch Working Paper No. 2006-13
Posted: 05 Nov 2006
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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credit risk measurement, credit risk capital allocation, Basel II

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Assessing Systemic Risk Exposure from Banks and Gses Under Alternative Approaches to Capital Regulation

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 28, No. 2
Posted: 01 Oct 2003
Paul Kupiec and David B. Nickerson
American Enterprise Institute and Ryerson University, TGSM

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capital regulation, government sponsored enterprise, housing

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Noise Traders, Excess Volatility, and a Securities Transactions Tax

FEDS Paper Number: 95-26
Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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The Use of Bank Trading Risk Models for Regulatory Capital Purposes

Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section

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A Pre-Commitment Approach to Capital Requirements for Market Risk

Posted: 24 Aug 1998
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section

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Recent Developments in Bank Capital Regulation; Regulation of Market Risks

FEDS Paper Number 95-51
Posted: 05 Jul 1998
Paul Kupiec and James M. O'Brien
American Enterprise Institute and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - Trading Risk Analysis Section

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Regulatory Competition and the Efficiency of Alternative Derivative Product Margining Systems

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics Discussion Series FEDS Paper Number: 96-11
Posted: 02 Jul 1998
Paul Kupiec and A. Patricia White
American Enterprise Institute and Government of the United States of America - Division of Research and Statistics

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Techniques for Verifying the Accuracy of Risk Measurement Models

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Techniques for Verifying the Accuracy of Risk Measurement Models

THE J. OF DERIVATIVES, Vol. 3 No. 2, Winter 1995
Posted: 09 Jan 1996
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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Techniques for Verifying the Accuracy of Risk Measurement Models

FEDS Paper Number: 95-24
Posted: 13 Sep 1995
Paul Kupiec
American Enterprise Institute

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