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Tim Xiao deposited The Valuation of Credit Default Swap with Counterparty Risk and Collateralization in the group
Business Management on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago This article presents a new model for valuing a credit default swap (CDS) contract that is affected by multiple credit risks of the buyer, seller and reference entity. We show that default dependency has a significant impact on asset pricing. In fact, correlated default risk is one of the most pervasive threats in financial markets. We also show that a fully collateralized CDS is not equivalent to a risk-free one. In other words, full collateralization cannot eliminate counterparty risk completely in the CDS market.