Wang, Dezhong; Rachev, Svetlozar T.; Fabozzi, Frank J. - In: Journal of Empirical Finance 16 (2009) 2, pp. 201-215
In this paper, we provide two one-factor heavy-tailed copula models for pricing a collateralized debt obligation and credit default index swap tranches: (1) a one-factor double t distribution with fractional degrees of freedom copula model and (2) a one-factor double mixture distribution of t...