This paper assumes a structural credit model with underlying stochastic volatility combining the Black/Cox approach with the Heston model. We model the equity of a company as a barrier call option on its assets. The assets are assumed to follow a stochastic volatility process; this implies an...

In this paper, we propose a method to price collateralized debt obligations (CDO) within Merton's structural model on underlyings with a stochastic mean-reverting covariance dependence. There are two key elements in our development, first we reduce dimensionality and complexity using principal...