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This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data for the ABX.HE family of … introduction into ABX index mechanics and a discussion of historical pricing patterns, we use regression analysis to establish the … for the inappropriateness of pricing models that do not sufficiently account for factors such as risk appetite and …
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credit derivatives in recent years. Possibly the most popular model beside the Gaussian copula for pricing CDO tranches is …
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This article studies four transform pricing methods in the context of generalequilibrium (GE) framework. The four … among actuarial literature and practice. The transform pricing methodsoffer a convenient solution to contingent claim … pricing problem when the underlyingrisk exposure cannot be fully hedged. We show analytically that these fourmethods are …
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The payoff of many credit derivatives depends on the level of credit spreads. Inparticular, credit derivatives with a leverage component are subject to gap risk, a riskassociated with the occurrence of jumps in the underlying credit default swaps. Inthe framework of first passage time models, we...
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applications to, e.g., multivariate option pricing with stochasticvolatilities and correlations, fixed-income models with …
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In this paper we model the adjustment process of European Union Allowance(EUA) prices to the releases of announcements at high-frequency controlling forintraday periodicity, volatility clustering and volatility persistence. We ¯nd thatthe high-frequency EUA price dynamics are very well captured...
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This paper examines the relative information shares of the Bund, i.e. the ten-year Euro bondfuture contract on German sovereign debt, versus two futures with shorter maturity. We findthat the Bund is most important but does not dominate price discovery. The other contractsalso have relevant –...
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Three years after the seminal work of Black and Scholes [3] on the pricing of European options,Scholes [18] presented a … influenceof a tax system on a given contract specification. The limit results lead to a pricing formulain closed form suggesting a … used as a base for pricing of complex options under taxation. …
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. Originally developed by Cox, Ross, and Rubinsteinto clarify the basic pricing principle of its continuous-time counterpart with …
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In the past decades several versions of the binomial model for option pricing, originallyintroduced by COX, ROSS, AND … probabilities may be useful for pricing derivatives such asbarrier options. A simple example is presented to illustrate this idea. …
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