Technical paper/Counterparty credit risk

Two curves, one price

The financial crisis multiplied the yield curves used to price interest rate derivatives, making traditional no arbitrage pricing no longer valid. By taking into account the basis adjustment bootstrapped from market basis swaps and using a foreign…

Two curves, one price

The financial crisis has multiplied the yield curves used to price plain vanilla interest rate derivatives, making classic single-curve no-arbitrage relations and pricing formulas no longer valid. Marco Bianchetti shows that no-arbitrage can be recovered…

Bilateral counterparty risk with application to CDSs

Previous research on credit valuation adjustments (CVAs) with correlation between underlying and counterparty default, including volatilities of both, assumed unilateral default risk. However, the crisis prompted counterparties to ask institutions to…

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,…

Wrong way risk modelling

Beyond its potential impact on counterparty risk exposure, the wrong way risk arising in some derivatives transactions raises important modelling challenges. Christian Redon presents two suitable models based on conditional expected exposure. Among…

Analysing counterparty risk

In an attempt to improve on existing regulatory approaches to derivatives counterparty creditrisk, Eduardo Canabarro, Evan Picoult and Tom Wilde present a new method based on expectedpositive exposure (EPE).

Analysing counterparty risk

In an attempt to improve on existing regulatory approaches to derivatives counterparty creditrisk, Eduardo Canabarro, Evan Picoult and Tom Wilde present a new method based on expectedpositive exposure (EPE). Using a one-factor conditional independence…

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