The opposite signs of MTM is due to fact that each party owes some amount to another. Say A & B, where A defaults. A owed 20 to B and B owed 10 to A. Then MTM values for B are +20 and -10.
If correlation is high, then both MTM values will go up/down together. And thus Net value (+10 here) will...
Vasicek model gives WCDR which is same as 1-V(T,X). Then why are we using V(T,X) while calculating Credit VAR. Formula for credit VAR should be L(1-RR)(1-V(T,X)) rather than L(1-RR)V(T,X). Is there any typo in this or previous slide ?
for BBB to B calculation for PV is at t=1month which is compared with current price which is at t=0. Shouldn't the time frame be same for loss calculation ?
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