A feature of credit markets is the large difference between probabilities of default calculated from historical data and probabilities of default implied from bond prices (or from credit default swaps). This paper illustrates and discusses the reasons for the difference between historical and...

This paper studies the valuation of multivariate equity options by determining the joint risk-neutral distribution of the underlying stock prices by means of copulas. In contrast to previous work which concentrates on two underlyings this study considers the general multivariate case. In...