PRMIA 8010 Dumps Questions Answers

The recovery rate, the default hazard rate (also called the average default intensity) and the spread on debt arelinked by the equation Hazard Rate = Spread/(1 - Recovery Rate). Therefore, the recovery rate implicit in the given data is = 1 - 8%/10% = 20%.

KMV Moody's uses a proprietary database to convert the distance to default to expected default probabilities.

If capital calculations are done in a standard way regardless of risk (as reflected by credit ratings), then it creates a perverse incentive for the lenders' employees to lend to the riskiest borrowers that offer the highest expected returns as there is no incentive to 'save' on economic capital requirements that are equal for both safe and unsafe borrowers. Therefore statement I is correct.

Given that the portfolio of suchan institution is likely to then comprise poor quality borrowers, and economic capital would be based upon 'average' expected ratings, it is likely to carry lower economic capital given its exposures. Therefore any such economic risk capital model is likely to understate economic capital requirements. Therefore statement IV is correct.

Statements II and III are incorrect and Choice 'b' is the correct answer.