This paper presents a contingent claim valuation of a callable convertible bond with the issuer's credit risk. The optimal call, voluntary conversion and bankruptcy strategies are jointly determined by shareholders and bondholders to maximize the equity value and the bond value, respectively....

With the intersection of market and credit risk, the first contribution is to derive the analytic formulas of the Credit Linked Notes (CLNs) and the leveraged total return CLNs issued by an Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) or the protection buyer. The second contribution is to prove that the values...

The article makes two contributions to the literature. The first contribution is to derive a closed-form solution of Taiwanese capped options. We also provide the properties of Taiwanese capped options and the phenomenon of delta jump at monitoring dates. When the interest rate changes...

In this paper, we propose AR-GARCH (autoregression-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) models to fit and forecast mortality rates for a given age by two alternative approaches. Specifically, one approach is to fit a time series of mortality rates for some age to an...