Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/66014 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 469
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes and quantifies the idea of model risk in the environment of internal model building. We define various types of model risk including estimation risk, model risk in distribution and model risk in functional form. By the quantification of these concepts we analyze the impact of the modeling process of an econometric model on the resulting company model. Utilizing real insurance data we specify, estimate and simulate various linear and nonlinear time series models for the inflation rate and examine its impact on pension liabilities under the aspect of model risk. Under consideration of different risk measures it is shown that model risk can differ profoundly due to the specification process of the econometric model resulting in remarkable monetary differences concerning capital reserves. We furthermore propose a specification strategy for univariate time series models and demonstrate that thereby market risk and capital reserves can be reduced distinctively.
Subjects: 
Model risk
estimation risk
misspecification risk
Basel multiplication factor
empirical model specification
capital reserves
JEL: 
G12
G18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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