Pricing synthetic CDO with MGB2 distribution

The Normal Tempered Stable Distribution for synthetic CDO pricing

CDO pricing with nested Archimedean copulas

Companies in the same industry sector are usually stronger correlated than firms in different sectors, as they are similarly affected by macroeconomic effects, political decisions, and consumer trends. In spite of many stock return models taking account of this fact there are only a few credit default models taking it into consideration. In this paper we present a default model based on nested ...

Synthetic CDO pricing using the double normal inverse Gaussian copula with stochastic factor loadings

Correlation expansions for CDO pricing

This paper develops numerical approximations for pricing collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other portfolio credit derivatives in the multifactor Normal Copula model. A key aspect of pricing portfolio credit derivatives is capturing dependence between the defaults of the elements of the portfolio. But, compared with an independent-obligor model, pricing in a model with correlated defaul...

Construction of Synthetic CDO Squared

We present techniques used in the implementation of an efficient constraint program for the portfolio optimization (PO) problem. This important combinatorial problem in the credit derivatives market arises for example when constructing synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) squared. A close relationship with the balanced incomplete block design (BIBD) problem exists which we make use ...