Key Features:Contributors are practitioners and academics from leading institutions such as Citigroup, Lehmen Brothers, JP Morgan, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Stanford University.

This handbook provides a timely discussion of the mathematical modelling that underpins both credit derivatives and securitisation. It covers statistical analysis and techniques modelling of default of both single and multiple entities counterparty risk, Gaussian and non-Gaussian modelling, and...

We propose a structural default model to evaluate the counterparty risk by trading in credit default swap (CDS) contracts. We model the joint evolution of the firm value of the entity underlying the CDS contract and the counterparty using a correlated jump-diffusion process. Unlike the...

The recent growth of credit derivatives has been explosive. The global credit derivatives market grew in notional value from $1 trillion to $20 trillion from 2000 to 2006. However, understanding the true nature of these instruments still poses both theoretical and practical challenges. For a...