medium · FRM Part 2 Credit Risk

A bank is building a 'Hazard-Rate' model for its corporate portfolio. It decides to use a 'non-homogeneous' Markov process.

What is the primary difference between this and a standard 'homogeneous' Markov process?

  1. In a non-homogeneous process, different obligors sharing the same rating grade can each show distinct default probabilities over time.
  2. In a non-homogeneous process, the rating migrations are permitted to depend on the obligor's prior transition history.
  3. In a non-homogeneous process, the transition matrix is not strictly required to sum to exactly 1.0 across each row.
  4. In a non-homogeneous process, the transition probabilities depend on the absolute time t (e.g., the phase of the credit cycle).

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