The Credit Default Swap (CDS) is the most popular credit derivative and it is used as an insurance against the risk of default by a particular company, known as a reference entity. If a portfolio of debt instruments is created with a complex structure where the cash flows from such portfolio are...

The pricing of commodity derivatives requires that the underlying asset be modelled with mean reversion and high volatility. We develop closed formulas to price the spot of the commodity, its future, and to price a call option on the spot and on the commodity future, in the real world and under...

The dynamics of oil prices in the past few years and their vertiginous rise observed during 2008 have captured the attention of academia and governments. This paper proposes an analysis of the petroleum market, making emphasis in the crude benchmarks WTI and Brent, the world reserves...

In this paper we study the possible effect it may have concerning the use of financial derivatives in the evolution of the share price of Mexican non-financial corporations, whether such contracts are used for hedging financial risks or for trading. The first part is a review of the literature...

Las opciones no solo son instrumentos que ofrecen la oportunidad de cubrir o aprovechar cambios direccionales en el precio del activo subyacente, sino que permiten valorar la volatilidad de este. En mercados desarrollados es posible identificar que los agentes sobrevaloran o subvaloran la...

Las opciones no solo son instrumentos que ofrecen la oportunidad de cubrir o aprovechar cambios direccionales en el precio del activo subyacente, sino que permiten valorar la volatilidad de este. En mercados desarrollados es posible identificar que los agentes sobrevaloran o subvaloran la...

The paper’s objective is to identify the balance of risks that economic agents incorporate in oil and exchange rate markets (peso/US dollar). For that purpose, two methodologies that are normally used to estimate the expected risk-neutral probability functions for a determinate underlying...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the default probabilities in infrastructure projects. For that, we analyze the exposure of the lenders to a state of default. This application is made by assuming the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) dynamic itself and the payment profile determined by...

This paper presents the analysis and valuation of an individual, temporary, and leveled-prime life insurance. It starting point is an analogy between contract rules and a financial exotic option. In particular, a cash or nothing option. Several cases are presented from a person with different...

At emerging financial markets, the R&D, intangible and technological basis firms (TBF) valuation, they make the traditional real option binomial approach questionable. For that, a numerical model that modified the traditional binomial model is proposed, incorporating trinomial lattice, changing...