In this paper we address the issue of finding an efficient and flexible numerical approach for calculating survival/default probabilities and pricing Credit Default Swaps under advanced jump dynamics. We have chosen to use the firm's value approach, modeling the firm's value by an...

In this paper we employ a one-factor Lévy model to determine basket option prices. More precisely, basket option prices are determined by replacing the distribution of the real basket with an appropriate approximation. For the approximate basket we determine the underlying characteristic...