This paper provides extensions to existing procedures for representing one-factor no-arbitrage models of the short rate in the form of a tree. It allows a wide range of drift functions for the short rate to be used in conjunction with a wide range of volatility assumptions. It shows that, if the...

A market-leveraged stock unit (MSU) is a form of employee compensation in which the number of shares received on the vesting date depends on the stock price at that time. MSUs have been proposed as a way of overcoming some of the drawbacks of stock options and restricted stock units. In this...

In Hull and White (2006) we showed how CDO quotes can be used to imply a probability distribution for the hazard rate over the life of the CDO. This is known as the implied copula model. In this paper we develop a parametric version of the implied copula model and show how it can be used for...