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Quantitative analysis

Market models for CDS

In August 2004, Risk published an article on the pricing of credit default swap (CDS) options entitled A measure of survival by Phillip Schönbucher. Here, Damiano Brigo provides an alternative derivation of the CDS option pricing formula based on Cox

Broadening horizons

When the investment horizon is of the order of a few years, such as in the context of personalfinancial planning, it becomes necessary to calculate and stress-test the exact distribution ofthe market at the given horizon, as the common first-order…

Excess yields in bond hedging

Litterman & Scheinkman (1991) showed that the term structure of interest rates is reliablymodelled by an affine three-factor model using principal component analysis. Such a modelis inconsistent with no arbitrage. Here, Haim Reisman and Gady Zohar derive…

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