Technical papers/Derivatives
Capturing credit correlation between counterparty and underlying
Kirk Buckley, Sascha Wilkens and Vladimir Chorniy present a semi-analytical approach for calculating the counterparty exposure of credit derivatives contracts conditional on the default of the counterparty,...
Brody, Crosby & Li (2008) introduced a quasi-analytical method to price limited price index (LPI) swaps with the Jarrow & Yildirim (2003) model. Their method works well for short-term contracts, but the...
Developing an arbitrage-free, consistent volatility surface in both expiry and strike from a discrete set of option quotes is a difficult and computationally intense problem. In this article, Jesper Andreasen...
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Risky funding with counterparty and liquidity charges
Standard techniques for incorporating liquidity costs into the fair value of derivatives produce counter-intuitive results when the credit risk of the counterparty and the investor are added to the picture. Here, Massimo Morini and Andrea Prampolini show...
Choice of collateral currency
Collateral agreements are becoming popular in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Masaaki Fujii and Akihiko Takahashi demonstrate its significant impact on derivatives pricing with a direct link to the cross-currency market. The importance of embedded...
The CMS triangle arbitrage
A dislocation between options on constant maturity swap rates and spreads in 2009 led to a static arbitrage opportunity. Here, Paul McCloud shows how this can be detected, and how a copula-based model strategy can exploit it
Choice of collateral currency
Collateral agreements are becoming popular in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Masaaki Fujii and Akihiko Takahashi demonstrate its significant impact on derivatives pricing with a direct link to the cross-currency market. The importance of embedded...
A Libor market model with a stochastic basis
The advent of the financial crisis made the previously negligible bases between different overnight interest rates explode. Fabio Mercurio adapts the classic Brace-Gatarek-Musiela Libor market model to the multiple curve environment, and shows how to...
Correlations in asynchronous markets
Lorenzo Bergomi addresses the issue of pricing multi-asset options in the context of asynchronous markets. Using the criterion that the carry profit and loss (P&L) vanishes, he derives the expression of the correlation estimator for the asynchronous case....
Post-shock short-rate pricing
The basis between swaps referencing funded fixings and swaps referencing overnight collateralised fixings has increased in importance with the 2007–09 liquidity and credit crises. This basis means that new pricing models for fixed-income staples such...
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