This paper studies the valuation of a class of default swaps with the embedded option to switch to a different premium and notional principal anytime prior to a credit event. These are early exercisable contracts that give the protection buyer or seller the right to step-up, step-down, or cancel...

The optimal capital structure model with endogenous bankruptcy was first studied by Leland (1994) and Leland & Toft (1996), and was later extended to the spectrally negative Lévy model by Hilberink Rogers (2002) and Kyprianou Surya (2007). This paper incorporates scale effects by allowing the...