This paper presents a joint analysis of the term structure of credit default swap (CDS) spreads and the implied volatility surface for European countries during 2007-2012, a sample period covering both the Global Financial Crisis and the European debt crisis. We analyze to which extent...

This paper presents a joint analysis of the term structure of credit default swap (CDS) spreads and the implied volatility surface. The rapid development of the CDS market has provided convenient products to extract credit risk, and its interaction with equity volatility has been analyzed in...

In this paper we extend the existing literature on xVA along three directions. First, we extend existing BSDE-based xVA frameworks to include initial margin by following the approach of Crépey (2015a) and Crépey (2015b). Next, we solve the consistency problem that arises when the front- office...