Packham, Natalie; Schlögl, Lutz; Schmidt, Wolfgang M. - 2009
The payoff of many credit derivatives depends on the level of credit spreads. In particular, the payoff of credit … derivatives with a leverage component is sensitive to jumps in the underlying credit spreads. In the framework of first passage …, a credit quality process is driven by an Itô integral with respect to a Brownian motion with stochastic volatility …