Operational risk data sets have two types of sample selection problems:
truncation below a given threshold due to data that are not recorded and random
censoring above that level caused by data that are not reported. This paper
proposes a model for operational losses that improves the internal loss
distribution modelling by combining internal and external operational risk
data. It also considers the possibility that internal and external data have
been collected with a different truncation threshold. Moreover, the model is
able to cope with unreported losses by means of an estimated underreporting
function.
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November 29, 2008