Exponential growth of credit default swaps market and the resulting pile of CDS contracts of notional value of $62 trillion by the end of 2007 as well as the OTC nature of the contracts are widely believed to be one of the main causes of the current crisis and its depth, because large volumes of...

Recently, advantages of conformal deformations of the contours of integration in pricing formulas for European options have been demonstrated in the context of wide classes of L'evy models, the Heston model and other affine models. Similar deformations were used in one-factor L'evy models to...

We consider discretely monitored barrier options under Levy models, including single and double barrier options and first touch digitals, as well as CDS and defaultable bonds. At each step of backward induction, we use piece-wise polynomial interpolation and an efficient version of the Fourier...

For prices of options with barrier and lookback features, defaultable bonds and CDS, and probability distribution functions in Levy models, joint probability distributions of the process and its supremum or/and infimum, one can derive explicit analytical formulas in terms of the Laplace...

Recently, the advantages of conformal deformations of the contours of integration in pricing formulas were demonstrated in the context of wide classes of Levy models and the Heston model. In the present paper we construct efficient conformal deformations of the contours of integration in the...

We describe a fast new method for the market implied calibration of the Heston (1993) model for equity, based on an improved version of the parabolic pricing algorithm of Levendorskii (2012). This pricing method, when used in the calibration, is much faster and more accurate, and better...

Recently, the advantages of conformal deformations of the contours of integration in pricing formulas were demonstrated in the context of wide classes of L'evy models and the Heston model. In the present paper we construct efficient conformal deformations of the contours of integration in the...