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Ambiguity in defaultable term structure models

Mathematical Finance 2018-04-25 v2

Abstract

We introduce the concept of no-arbitrage in a credit risk market under ambiguity considering an intensity-based framework. We assume the default intensity is not exactly known but lies between an upper and lower bound. By means of the Girsanov theorem, we start from the reference measure where the intensity is equal to 11 and construct the set of equivalent martingale measures. From this viewpoint, the credit risky case turns out to be similar to the case of drift uncertainty in the GG-expectation framework. Finally, we derive the interval of no-arbitrage prices for general bond prices in a Markovian setting.

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@article{arxiv.1801.10498,
  title  = {Ambiguity in defaultable term structure models},
  author = {Tolulope Fadina and Thorsten Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.10498},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages, corrected typos