Technical paper
Information derivatives
This paper considers the problem of creating derivatives to provide tailored exposure to volatility risk
Counterparty risk and CCDSs under correlation
Counterparty risk under correlation is relatively unexplored in the financial literature. Damiano Brigo and Andrea Pallavicini extend previous analysis beyond swap portfolios. A stochastic-intensity jump-diffusion model is adopted for the default event,…
Vix option pricing in a jump-diffusion model
Artur Sepp discusses Vix futures and options and shows that their market prices exhibit positive volatility skew. To better model the market behaviour of the S&P 500 index and its associated volatility skew, he introduces the stochastic dynamics of the…
Information derivatives
Andrei Soklakov considers the problem of creating derivatives to provide tailored exposure to volatility risk. Information theory leads us to a whole class of such products. This class of 'information derivatives' includes the standard volatility…