Although option pricing schemes in regime-switching frameworks were extensively explored in the literature, many models developed disregard the unobservability of regimes. In such a context, the traditional pricing approach pioneered by Hardy (2001) applied to vanilla options exhibits...

The current paper provides a general approach to construct distortion operators that can price financial and insurance risks. Our approach generalizes the Wang (2000) transform and recovers multiple distortions proposed in the literature as particular cases. This approach enables designing...

We investigate the impact of credit spreads on the stochastic duration and convexity of corporate bonds with respect to the same metrics for equivalent Treasury bonds. We show that the credit spread has two interacting effects on both the duration and the convexity of a corporate coupon bond as...