An importance sampling method for portfolios of credit risky assets
WSC '04 Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation
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We consider some optimization problems arising in an efficient simulation method for the measurement of the tail of portfolio credit risk. When we apply an importance sampling (IS) technique, it is necessary to characterize the important regions. In this paper, we consider the computation of directions for the IS, which becomes hard in multifactor case. We show this problem is NP-hard. To overcome this difficulty, we transform the original problem to subset sum and quadratic optimization problems. We support numerically that these re-formulation is computationally tractable.