Credit risk management is important for the investors in practical risk management. This paper aims to discuss how to evaluate the default risk of bond portfolios by applying extreme value theory. Based on Black and Cox default approach, we propose a novel threshold default model and use extreme...

Following the framework of Klein [1996. Journal of Banking and Finance 20, 1211–1229], this paper presents an improved method of pricing vulnerable options under jump diffusion assumptions about the underlying stock prices and firm values which are appropriate in many business situations. In...