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Counterparty risk valuation for CDS

Pricing of Securities 2008-12-10 v1 Probability

Abstract

The valuation of counterparty risk for single name credit derivatives requires the computa- tion of joint distributions of default times of two default-prone entities. For a Merton-type model, we derive some formulas for these joint distribu- tions. As an application, closed formulas for counterparty risk on a CDS or for a first-to-default swap on two underlyings are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0309,
  title  = {Counterparty risk valuation for CDS},
  author = {Christophette Blanchet-Scalliet and Frédéric Patras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0309},
  year   = {2008}
}
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