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Importance sampling for a Markovian intensity model with applications to credit risk
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Mathematical Statistics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6608-0715
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Mathematical Statistics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9210-121X
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Mathematical Statistics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8702-2293
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Abstract [en]

This paper considers importance sampling for estimation of rare-event probabilities in a Markovian intensity model for credit risk. The main contribution is the design of efficient importance sampling algorithms using subsolutions of a certain Hamilton-Jacobi equation. For certain instances of the credit risk model the proposed algorithm is proved to be asymptotically optimal. The computational gain compared to standard Monte Carlo is illustrated by numerical experiments.

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Probability Theory and Statistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144420OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-144420DiVA, id: diva2:713463
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QC 20170125

Available from: 2014-04-23 Created: 2014-04-23 Last updated: 2022-06-23Bibliographically approved
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1. On large deviations and design of efficient importance sampling algorithms
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2014 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis consists of four papers, presented in Chapters 2-5, on the topics large deviations and stochastic simulation, particularly importance sampling. The four papers make theoretical contributions to the development of a new approach for analyzing efficiency of importance sampling algorithms by means of large deviation theory, and to the design of efficient algorithms using the subsolution approach developed by Dupuis and Wang (2007).

In the first two papers of the thesis, the random output of an importance sampling algorithm is viewed as a sequence of weighted empirical measures and weighted empirical processes, respectively. The main theoretical results are a Laplace principle for the weighted empirical measures (Paper 1) and a moderate deviation result for the weighted empirical processes (Paper 2). The Laplace principle for weighted empirical measures is used to propose an alternative measure of efficiency based on the associated rate function.The moderate deviation result for weighted empirical processes is an extension of what can be seen as the empirical process version of Sanov's theorem. Together with a delta method for large deviations, established by Gao and Zhao (2011), we show moderate deviation results for importance sampling estimators of the risk measures Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall.

The final two papers of the thesis are concerned with the design of efficient importance sampling algorithms using subsolutions of partial differential equations of Hamilton-Jacobi type (the subsolution approach).

In Paper 3 we show a min-max representation of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In particular, the representation suggests a general approach for constructing subsolutions to equations associated with terminal value problems and exit problems. Since the design of efficient importance sampling algorithms is connected to such subsolutions, the min-max representation facilitates the construction of efficient algorithms.

In Paper 4 we consider the problem of constructing efficient importance sampling algorithms for a certain type of Markovian intensity model for credit risk. The min-max representation of Paper 3 is used to construct subsolutions to the associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the corresponding importance sampling algorithms are investigated both theoretically and numerically.

The thesis begins with an informal discussion of stochastic simulation, followed by brief mathematical introductions to large deviations and importance sampling. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2014. p. xii, 20
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TRITA-MAT-A ; 14:05
Keywords
Large deviations, Monte Carlo methods, importance sampling
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Probability Theory and Statistics
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144423 (URN)978-91-7595-130-0 (ISBN)
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2014-05-14, Sal F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26, KTH, Stockholm, 13:15 (English)
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QC 20140424

Available from: 2014-04-24 Created: 2014-04-23 Last updated: 2022-06-23Bibliographically approved

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