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Extremal Dependence For Bilateral Credit Valuation Adjustments

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  • MATTHIAS SCHERER

    (Chair of Mathematical Finance, Technische Universität München, Parkring 11, 85748 Garching-Hochbrück, Germany)

  • THORSTEN SCHULZ

    (Chair of Mathematical Finance, Technische Universität München, Parkring 11, 85748 Garching-Hochbrück, Germany)

Abstract

Recognizing counterparty default risk as integral part of the valuation process of financial derivatives has changed the classical view on option pricing. Calculating the bilateral credit valuation adjustment (BCVA) including wrong way risk (WWR) requires a sound model for the dependence structure between three quantities: the default times of the two contractual parties and the derivative/portfolio value at the first of the two default times. There exist various proposals, but no market consensus, on how this dependence structure should be modeled. Moreover, available mathematical tools depend strongly on the marginal models for the default times and the model for the underlying of the derivative. In practice, independence between all (or some) quantities is still a popular (over-)simplification, which completely misses the root of WWR. In any case, specifying the dependence structure imposes one to model risk and even within some parametric model one typically obtains a considerable interval of BCVA values when the parameters are taken to the extremes. In this work, we present a model-free approach to identify the dependence structure that implies the extremes of BCVA. This is achieved by solving a mass-transportation problem using tools from optimization.

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  • Matthias Scherer & Thorsten Schulz, 2016. "Extremal Dependence For Bilateral Credit Valuation Adjustments," International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(07), pages 1-21, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijtafx:v:19:y:2016:i:07:n:s0219024916500424
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219024916500424
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