This paper uses the first-passage-time approach to estimate default probabilities of commercial mortgages and the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) approach to empirically test the cash flow proposition of Vandell (1995). The focus is on comparing the performance between a single trigger...

Purpose - Credit derivatives continue to grow in popularity as well as complexity. While single-name credit default swaps are still the most popular instruments, second-generation products have become more commonplace. Second generation products are those whose payoffs are contingent on the...

This article revisits the topic of two‐state option pricing. It examines the models developed by Cox, Ross, and Rubinstein (1979), Rendleman and Bartter (1979), and Trigeorgis (1991) and presents two alternative binomial models based on the continuous‐time and discrete‐time geometric...