Pricing Financial Derivatives Subject to Multilateral Credit Risk and Collateralization
26 Pages Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Date Written: June 26, 2019
Abstract
This article presents a new model for valuing financial contracts subject to credit risk and collateralization. Examples include the valuation of a credit default swap (CDS) contract that is affected by the trilateral credit risk of the buyer, seller and reference entity. We show that default dependency has a significant impact on asset pricing. In fact, correlated default risk is one of the most pervasive threats in financial markets. We also show that a fully collateralized CDS is not equivalent to a risk-free one. In other words, full collateralization cannot eliminate counterparty risk completely in the CDS market.
Keywords: asset pricing; credit risk modeling; collateralization; comvariance; comrelation; correlation, CDS
JEL Classification: E44, G21, G12, G24, G32, G33, G18, G28
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