Mele, Antonio; Obayashi, Yoshiki - 2013 - This version: April 22, 2013
Credit volatility correlates quite modestly with equity volatility. Currently, only backward-looking indexes for credit … volatility exist. We derive model-free indexes of expected CDS index spread volatility that rely on CDS index option prices … percentage and basis point expected volatility, and show that basis point volatility can be priced in a model- free format even …