Publications

The following publications are available for purchase or download.

Reinventing Retail Lending Analytics, Riskbooks, 2010.

This is the definitive text on forecasting and stress testing for retail lending portfolios. It describes the algorithms, problem designs, and validation techniques that provide the most robust solutions for these loan portfolio. It also extends this framework to economic capital and loan-level modeling.
Available from Riskbooks here.

Macroeconomic Adverse Selection: How Consumer Demand Drives Credit Risk

Recently presented at the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference in Edinburgh, this paper describes the economic motivations behind shifts in consumer demand for credit. In doing so, it discusses how the factors can be used to predict shifts in credit risk that are missed by existing credit scores.
Click here for the paper.

Introduction to Portfolio Analysis

This series of papers in the RMA Journal provide a basic introduction to all aspects of portfolio analysis.

"Becoming a Better Vintner", RMA Journal, September 2002.
"Portfolio Forecasting Tools: What You Need to Know", RMA Journal, September 2003, pp. 78 - 87.
"Stress Testing Retail Loan Portfolios", RMA Journal, October 2004.
"Universal Laws of Retail Economic Capital", RMA Journal, March 2006, pp. 48 - 51.
"Retail Portfolio Optimization", RMA Journal, October 2006, pp. 38 - 43.

Other Trade Publications on Retail Lending

"The US Mortgage Crisis: What the Models Missed", National Mortgage News, March 4, 2011.
"Comment on Proposed NCUA Guidance on Interest Rate Risk", www.ncua.gov, March 23, 2011.

Academic Publications on Retail Lending Analytics and Validation

"Modeling Data with Multiple Time Dimensions", J of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 51, Issue 9, March 15, 2007, pp. 4761-4785.
“Stress-testing retail loan portfolios with dual-time dynamics,” The Journal of Risk Model Validation, 2(2), Summer 2008, pp. 43-62.
“The Relationship Between Default and Economic Cycle Across Countries for Retail Portfolios,” The Journal of Risk Model Validation, 2(3), Autumn 2008.
“Survey of Retail Loan Portfolio Stress Testing,” in Stress Testing for Financial Institutions, Eds. H. Scheule and D. Roesche, RiskBooks, 2008.
“Monte Carlo Scenario Generation for Retail Loan Portfolios”, Journal of Operations Research, v.61, pp.399-410, March 2010.
"Moving from Rankings to Ratings", Proceedings of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference XI, Edinburgh, August 2009.
"Specification Errors in Stress Test Models", Proceedings of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference, Edinburgh, August 2009.
"Testing retail lending models for missing cross-terms", Journal of Risk Model Validation, 4(4), Winter 2010.
"A through-the-cycle model for retail lending economic capital", International Journal of Forecasting, May 2011.
"Estimating the Effects of Adjustable Rate Mortgage Resets", Proceedings of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference XII, Edinburgh, 2011.
"Macroeconomic Adverse Selection: How Consumer Demand Drives Credit Quality", Proceedings of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control Conference XII, Edinburgh, 2011.