This thesis is concerned with the pricing of credit- and inflation-linked products
within a defaultable term structure framework that incorporates macroeconomic
and firm-specific factors. In particular, we introduce a general pricing
framework from which several models are derived differing in the assumptions
regarding the number of economic factors, observability and correlation
of these factors. Based on the general version of the defaultable term structure model, we determine prices for credit default swaps and further deduce exact dynamics of their spreads. Approximating these exact dynamics enables us to present closed-form solutions for complex credit derivatives. Further, we apply a variant of our general term structure framework to the pricing of inflation-linked products, especially hybrid derivatives with interest rate, equity or credit components.
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This thesis is concerned with the pricing of credit- and inflation-linked products
within a defaultable term structure framework that incorporates macroeconomic
and firm-specific factors. In particular, we introduce a general pricing
framework from which several models are derived differing in the assumptions
regarding the number of economic factors, observability and correlation
of these factors. Based on the general version of the defaultable term structure model, we determine prices for...
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