The emergence of Credit Default Swap (CDS) indices and corresponding credit risk transfer markets with high liquidity and narrow bid-ask spreads has created standard benchmarks for market credit risk and correlation against which portfolio credit risk models can be calibrated. Integrated risk...

There is considerable empirical evidence that financial returns exhibit leptokurtosis and nonzero skewness. As a result, alternative distributions for modelling a time series of the financial returns have been proposed. A family of distributions that has shown considerable promise for modelling...

In this article, we introduce two new six-parameter processes based on time-changing tempered stable distributions and develop an option pricing model based on these processes. This model provides a good fit to observed option prices. To demonstrate the advantages of the new processes, we...