We study existence and uniqueness of a solution to path-dependent backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (BSVIEs, in short) with jumps, where path-dependence means the dependence of the free term and generator of a path of a càdlàg process. Furthermore, we prove path-differentiability...

We investigate default probabilities and default correlations of Merton-type credit portfolio models in stress scenarios where a common risk factor is truncated. The analysis is performed in the class of elliptical distributions, a family of light-tailed to heavy-tailed distributions...

Regime switching is a well-known approach to incorporate significant changes in the modelling of financial data, like interest rates and default intensities. In the context of one of the standard pricing models, the CIR model with jumps, we analyse the effect of regime switching on the prices of...

Weather derivatives (WD) are different from most financial derivatives because the underlying weather cannot be traded and therefore cannot be replicated by other financial instruments. The market price of risk (MPR) is an important parameter of the associated equivalent martingale measures used...

Pricing kernels implicit in option prices play a key role in assessing the risk aversion over equity returns. We deal with nonparametric estimation of the pricing kernel (Empirical Pricing Kernel) given by the ratio of the risk-neutral density estimator and the subjective density estimator. The...

This chapter deals with nonparametric estimation of the risk neutral density. We present three different approaches which do not require parametric functional assumptions on the underlying asset price dynamics nor on the distributional form of the risk neutral density. The first estimator is a...