A timely guide to understanding and implementing credit derivatives Credit derivatives are here to stay and will continue to play a role in finance in the future. But what will that role be? What issues and challenges should be addressed? And what lessons can be learned from the credit mess?...

pt. 1. Expert views -- pt. 2. Credit derivatives : methods -- pt. 3. Credit derivatives : products -- pt. 4. Counterparty risk pricing and credit valuation adjustment -- pt. 5. Equity to credit -- pt. 6. Miscellanea : liquidity, ratings, risk contributions, and simulation.

In the first part we consider a dynamical model for the number of defaults of a pool of names. The model is based on the notion of generalized Poisson process, allowing for more than one default in small time intervals, contrary to many alternative approaches to loss modeling. We illustrate how...

We introduce an innovative theoretical framework for the valuation and replication of derivative transactions between defaultable entities based on the principle of arbitrage freedom. Our framework extends the traditional formulations based on credit and debit valuation adjustments (CVA and...