A SUBORDINATED CIR INTENSITY MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO WRONG-WAY RISK CVA

Cheikh Mbaye () and Frédéric Vrins
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Cheikh Mbaye: Louvain Finance Center & CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), 2018, vol. 21, issue 07, 1-22

Abstract: Credit valuation adjustment (CVA) pricing models need to be both flexible and tractable. The survival probability has to be known in closed form (for calibration purposes), the model should be able to fit any valid credit default swap (CDS) curve, should lead to large volatilities (in line with CDS options) and finally should be able to feature significant wrong-way risk (WWR) impact. The Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) model combined with independent positive jumps and deterministic shift (JCIR++) is a very good candidate : the variance (and thus covariance with exposure, i.e. WWR) can be increased with the jumps, whereas the calibration constraint is achieved via the shift. In practice however, there is a strong limit on the model parameters that can be chosen, and thus on the resulting WWR impact. This is because only non-negative shifts are allowed for consistency reasons, whereas the upwards jumps of the JCIR++ need to be compensated by a downward shift. To limit this problem, we consider the two-side jump model recently introduced by Mendoza-Arriaga and Linetsky, built by time-changing CIR intensities. In a multivariate setup like CVA, time-changing the intensity partly kills the potential correlation with the exposure process and destroys WWR impact. Moreover, it can introduce a forward looking effect that can lead to arbitrage opportunities. In this paper, we use the time-changed CIR process in a way that the above issues are avoided. We show that the resulting process allows to introduce a large WWR effect compared to the JCIR++ model. The computation cost of the resulting Monte Carlo framework is reduced by using an adaptive control variate procedure.

Keywords: Default intensity; time-changed diffusion; Lévy subordinator; credit value adjustment (CVA); wrong-way risk (WWR); adaptive control variate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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