The new structural model of credit risk based on a normal firm value diffusion process can infer the firm value volatility from bank credit spreads that closely agreeing with the empirically estimated firm value volatility. We use the spread-implied firm value volatility as the model volatility...

A recent trend in pricing counterparty credit risk for OTC derivatives has involved taking into account the bilateral nature of the risk so that an institution would reduce counterparty risk in line with their own default probability. Done to an extreme, this practice has worrying implications...

The financial crisis has raised concerns throughout the industry on the possibility that hedging credit valuation adjustment (CVA) might become increasingly difficult should the long-standing correlation between singlename and index CDS products break down. So, we provide an estimation of the...

Central bank lending to commercial banks is typically collateralized which reduces central bank's credit risk exposure to “double default events” when the counterparty and the issuer of the underlying collateral asset both default in a short period of time. This paper presents a simple model...

We sketch a framework to theoretically identify the components of the value that a bank should attach to a deal and how to charge them to the relevant departments and/or to the final counterparty (client) by an internal transfer pricing system

We study conditions for existence, uniqueness and invariance of the comprehensive nonlinear valuation equations first introduced in Pallavicini et al (2011). These equations take the form of semi-linear PDEs and Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs). After summarizing the...

We show how, in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy, the dividend policy impacts the values of equity and debt as well as credit risk. The recent financial crisis has emphasized the fact that excessive dividends can lead to financial distress. There is a strong need to set qualitative and...

Developing analytic techniques for potential future exposure (PFE) of a general type transaction and applying it to credit value adjustment (CVA) and wrong way risk (WWR). The solutions provide a transparent and computationally friendly analytic formulas and good quality analytic estimates of...

This paper presents a new solution technique for the non-linear pricing equation of equity contingency claims that arises in the presence of CVA adjustments. Our approach is based on a perturbation approximation of the full PDE that employs the duality relationships between parameter- and...

This paper uses an exclusive proprietary data set of European Credit Derivatives and VIX markets, covering a sample of 5 to 7 years, to study the nature of the link between credit risk and market risk, widely acknowledged in the academic literature. This allows us to establish cointegration in...