Working Paper
Are Banks' Internal Risk Parameters Consistent? Evidence from Syndicated Loans
Rezende, Marcelo; Firestone, Simon (2013-10-01)
This paper examines consistency in the estimates of probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) that nine large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find substantial dispersion in these parameters. Banks differ substantially in PDs, but only a few set PDs systematically higher or lower than the median bank. However, many banks differ from the median bank systematically in LGDs, and these differences affect their Basel II minimum regulatory capital ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2013-84