Asset backed securities (ABSs) are structured finance products backed by pools of assets and are created through a securitisation process. The risks in asset backed securities, such as, credit risk, prepayment risk, market risks, operational risk, and legal risks, are directly connected with the...

In this paper we address the issue of finding an efficient and flexible numerical approach for calculating survival/default probabilities and pricing Credit Default Swaps under advanced jump dynamics. We have chosen to use the firm's value approach, modeling the firm's value by an...

In this paper we discuss the pricing of Constant Maturity Credit Default Swaps (CMCDS) under single sided jump models. The CMCDS offers default protection in exchange for a floating premium which is periodically reset and indexed to the market spread on a CDS with constant maturity tenor written...