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| Large Portfolio Losses: A dynamic contagion model by Paolo Dai Pra of the University of Padova, March 4, 2009 Abstract: Using particle system methodologies we study the propagation of financial distress in a network of firms facing credit risk. We investigate the phenomenon of a credit crisis and quantify the losses that a bank may suffer in a large credit portfolio. Applying a large deviation principle we compute the limiting distributions of the system and determine the time evolution of the credit quality indicators of the firms, deriving moreover the dynamics of a global financial health indicator. We finally describe a suitable version of the "Central Limit Theorem" useful to study large portfolio losses. Simulation results are provided as well as applications to portfolio loss distribution analysis. Keywords: Credit contagion, credit crisis, interacting particle systems, Large Deviations, large portfolio losses, mean field interaction, non reversible Markov processes, phase transition. Published in: Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 19, No. 1, (February 2009), pp. 347-394. Books Referenced in this paper: (what is this?)
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