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Multi-Scale Time-changed Birth Processes For Pricing Multi-name Credit Derivatives

by Erhan Bayraktar of the University of Michigan, and
Bo Yang of the University of Michigan

September 2008

Abstract: We develop two parsimonious models for pricing multi-name credit derivatives. We derive closed form expression for the loss distribution, which then can be used in determining the prices of tranche and index swaps and more exotic derivatives on these contracts. Our starting point is the model of Ding, Giesecke and Tomecek (2008), which takes the loss process as a time changed birth process. We introduce stochastic parameter variations into the intensity of the loss process and use the multi-time scale approach of Fouque, Papanicolaou, Sircar, and Solna (2003) and obtain explicit perturbation approximations to the loss distribution. We demonstrate the competence of our approach by calibrating it to the CDX index data.

JEL Classification: G13.

Keywords: Pricing multiname credit derivatives, pertubation approximation, multiple time scales, time changed birth processes, index/tranche swap, calibration.

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