Scenario Lab Support
  • Scenario Lab
  • Release Notes
  • User Guide
    • Getting Started
      • Navigation
      • Choosing Casefiles
    • Design
      • Select Economic Variables
      • Select Assets
    • Review
      • Review Economic Variables
      • Review Asset Classes
    • Analysis
      • Classify Scenarios
      • Examine Scenarios
      • Estimate Expected Returns
      • Evaluate Portfolios
    • Stress Test Lab
      • Examine Stress Scenarios
  • Research Papers
    • Enhanced Scenario Analysis (Research Paper)
    • Portfolio Choice with Path-Dependent Preferences
    • A New Index of the Business Cycle
    • Severe but Plausible – or Not?
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  • Add or create new Prospective Economic Scenarios
  • Review Covariance
  • Revising Scenario Probabilities
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Examine Scenarios

Estimate scenario probabilities, revise scenario estimates, or define new scenarios.

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Last updated 4 years ago

This is the core of Scenario Lab. This screen allows you to

  1. Create new scenarios to extend beyond Weak, Normal, and Robust scenarios.

  2. Review the underlying Covariance assumption.

  3. Estimate probabilities of prospective scenarios.

  4. Edit scenario probabilities and solve for scenario estimates that are consistent with specified views.

The grid at the top of the screen shows the prospective economic scenarios (columns) and the corresponding economic variables values / views (rows). Scenario Lab measure the statistical distance of the prospective scenario estimates from this table to an anchor condition: past historical norm or current prevailing conditions.

Scenario Lab then converts these statistical distances from either the historical norm or current conditions into relative likelihoods.

The relative likelihoods are then normalized and displayed as scenario probabilities in the bottom grid.

Add or create new Prospective Economic Scenarios

To add a new prospective economic scenario (column) in the top grid, click on on the create new scenario button and follow on-screen instructions.

You can create up and work with up to nine prospective economic scenarios

Review Covariance

To review the historical covariance used for the underlying analysis, click on Review Covariance to show a table of standard deviations and correlation coefficients across the economic variables.

Revising Scenario Probabilities

If you would like to edit or override the scenario probabilities with your own views, click on the corresponding scenario probability to edit:

Revising a scenario probability will engage a numerical solver and update scenario estimates in the top grid to reconcile the empirically-driven process with your new views.

If you would like to reset any edits back to the initial set of empirical-driven probabilities and scenario estimates, click on Reset.

Selecting an anchor condition
Create and specify addition prospective economic scenarios
Revising a scenario probability
Reset all edits