Economic capital workshop
This workshop has already taken place.
Some pictures of the event can be found here.

Date: 12 May 2009

Location:
Restaurant Arenberg  
Rotspoelstraat 5
3001 Heverlee
Map

Registration fee:

Including diner and VAT
450 Euro for early registration (before May 1st)
550 Euro for late registration
200 Euro academic fee (for full-time students and academics)
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Transfer of registration fee to a colleague is always possible.
Full reimbursement of registration fee until May 1st.
Program

13.30

Registration

14.00 Economic Capital: a myth resolved
Elisabeth Van Laere
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
prof. dr. Bart Baesens
K.U.Leuven, University of Southampton

  • Financial stability and capital regulation
  • Regulatory capital arbitrage
  • Basel II pillar 1 & 2
  • Regulatory and economic capital: some evidence from the field
15.00 Regulatory versus economic capital
dr. ir. Tony Van Gestel
Director of Basel II Modelling Group
Dexia Group

  • Introduction: portfolio risk measures and portfolio model formulations
  • Basel II pillar 1 portfolio model versus industry portfolio models
  • Aggregation of risk capital
  • Economic and regulatory capital
16.00

Coffee/Tea break

16.30 Economic Capital for Structured Finance
dr. Erwin Charlier
Senior Risk Consultant , Assistant Professor in Econometrics and Operations Research
SNS Reaal, Tilburg University

  • Characteristics of underlying pools
  • Economic Capital on a portfolio of two CDO tranches
  • Economic Capital on a portfolio of ten CDO tranches
  • Discussion
17.30 An actuarial approach to economic capital
prof. dr. Marc Goovaerts
Professor Risk Management
K.U.Leuven

  • Risk measures and decisions in insurance
  • The interplay between price and solvency
  • The cost of capital and default probability
  • Reinsurance and solvency
  • The advantage of long tail business
18.30 Discussion and Conclusions
prof. dr. Bart Baesens
Professor Risk Management
K.U.Leuven, University of Southampton

18.45 Reception, networking and diner