| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Motivation | p. 1 |
| Counterparty Default Risk | p. 2 |
| Derivatives on Defaultable Assets | p. 6 |
| Credit Derivatives | p. 7 |
| Objectives | p. 8 |
| Structure | p. 10 |
| Contingent Claim Valuation | p. 13 |
| Valuation in Discrete Time | p. 14 |
| Definitions | p. 14 |
| The Finite Setting | p. 15 |
| Extensions | p. 18 |
| Valuation in Continuous Time | p. 18 |
| Definitions | p. 19 |
| Arbitrage Pricing | p. 20 |
| Fundamental Asset Pricing Theorem | p. 25 |
| Applications in Continuous Time | p. 25 |
| Black-Scholes Model | p. 26 |
| Margrabe's Model | p. 30 |
| Heath-Jarrow-Morton Framework | p. 33 |
| Forward Measure | p. 38 |
| Applications in Discrete Time | p. 41 |
| Geometric Brownian Motion | p. 41 |
| Heath-Jarrow-Morton Forward Rates | p. 43 |
| Summary | p. 45 |
| Credit Risk Models | p. 47 |
| Pricing Credit-Risky Bonds | p. 47 |
| Traditional Methods | p. 48 |
| Firm Value Models | p. 48 |
| Merton's Model | p. 48 |
| Extensions and Applications of Merton's Model | p. 51 |
| Bankruptcy Costs and Endogenous Default | p. 52 |
| First Passage Time Models | p. 53 |
| Intensity Models | p. 58 |
| Jarrow-Turnbull Model | p. 58 |
| Jarrow-Lando-Turnbull Model | p. 62 |
| Other Intensity Models | p. 65 |
| Pricing Derivatives with Counterparty Risk | p. 66 |
| Firm Value Models | p. 66 |
| Intensity Models | p. 67 |
| Swaps | p. 68 |
| Pricing Credit Derivatives | p. 70 |
| Debt Insurance | p. 70 |
| Spread Derivatives | p. 71 |
| Empirical Evidence | p. 73 |
| Summary | p. 74 |
| A Firm Value Pricing Model for Derivatives with Counter-party Default Risk | p. 77 |
| The Credit Risk Model | p. 77 |
| Deterministic Liabilities | p. 79 |
| Prices for Vulnerable Options | p. 80 |
| Special Cases | p. 82 |
| Fixed Recovery Rate | p. 83 |
| Deterministic Claims | p. 84 |
| Stochastic Liabilities | p. 85 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Options | p. 87 |
| Special Cases | p. 88 |
| Asset Claims | p. 89 |
| Debt Claims | p. 89 |
| Gaussian Interest Rates and Deterministic Liabilities | p. 90 |
| Forward Measure | p. 91 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Stock Options | p. 93 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Bond Options | p. 95 |
| Special Cases | p. 95 |
| Gaussian Interest Rates and Stochastic Liabilities | p. 96 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Stock Options | p. 97 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Bond Options | p. 99 |
| Special Cases | p. 99 |
| Vulnerable Forward Contracts | p. 99 |
| Numerical Examples | p. 100 |
| Deterministic Interest Rates | p. 100 |
| Stochastic Interest Rates | p. 103 |
| Forward Contracts | p. 110 |
| Summary | p. 113 |
| Proofs of Propositions | p. 115 |
| Proof of Proposition 4.2.1 | p. 115 |
| Proof of Proposition 4.3.1 | p. 120 |
| Proof of Proposition 4.4.1 | p. 125 |
| Proof of Proposition 4.5.1 | p. 132 |
| A Hybrid Pricing Model for Contingent Claims with Credit Risk | p. 141 |
| The General Credit Risk Framework | p. 141 |
| Independence and Constant Parameters | p. 143 |
| Price Reduction and Bond Prices | p. 145 |
| Model Specifications | p. 146 |
| Arrival Rate of Default | p. 146 |
| Recovery Rate | p. 147 |
| Bankruptcy Costs | p. 148 |
| Implementations | p. 149 |
| Lattice with Deterministic Interest Rates | p. 149 |
| The Bankruptcy Process | p. 153 |
| An Extended Lattice Model | p. 155 |
| Stochastic Interest Rates | p. 157 |
| Recombining Lattice versus Binary Tree | p. 158 |
| Prices of Vulnerable Options | p. 159 |
| Recovering Observed Term Structures | p. 160 |
| Recovering the Risk-Free Term Structure | p. 160 |
| Recovering the Defaultable Term Structure | p. 161 |
| Default-Free Options on Risky Bonds | p. 162 |
| Put-Call Parity | p. 163 |
| Numerical Examples | p. 164 |
| Deterministic Interest Rates | p. 164 |
| Stochastic Interest Rates | p. 168 |
| Computational Cost | p. 171 |
| Summary | p. 173 |
| Pricing Credit Derivatives | p. 175 |
| Credit Derivative Instruments | p. 176 |
| Credit Derivatives of the First Type | p. 176 |
| Credit Derivatives of the Second Type | p. 178 |
| Other Credit Derivatives | p. 178 |
| Valuation of Credit Derivatives | p. 178 |
| Payoff Functions | p. 180 |
| Credit Forward Contracts | p. 180 |
| Credit Spread Options | p. 182 |
| The Compound Pricing Approach | p. 183 |
| Firm Value Model | p. 183 |
| Stochastic Interest Rates | p. 187 |
| Intensity and Hybird Credit Risk Models | p. 188 |
| Numerical Examples | p. 189 |
| Deterministic Interest Rates | p. 189 |
| Stochastic Interest Rates | p. 193 |
| Pricing Spread Derivatives with a Reduced-Form Model | p. 194 |
| Credit Derivatives as Exchange Options | p. 198 |
| Process Specifications | p. 198 |
| Price of an Exchange Option | p. 200 |
| Credit Derivatives with Counterparty Default Risk | p. 205 |
| Price of an Exchange Option with Counterparty Default Risk | p. 205 |
| Summary | p. 215 |
| Conclusion | p. 217 |
| Summary | p. 218 |
| Practical Implications | p. 220 |
| Future Research | p. 220 |
| Useful Tools from Martingale Theory | p. 223 |
| Probabilistic Foundations | p. 223 |
| Process Classes | p. 225 |
| Martingales | p. 225 |
| Brownian Motion | p. 227 |
| Stochastic Integration | p. 229 |
| Change of Measure | p. 233 |
| References | p. 237 |
| List of Figures | p. 247 |
| List of Tables | p. 249 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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