Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium

 Title: Bond and CDS Pricing with Stochastic Recovery Speaker: Albert Cohen Academic Director, Actuarial Sciences Program Mathematics (also appointed in Statistics and Probability) Michigan State University East Lansing, MI Abstract: Classical credit risk and pricing models typically assume that the expected recovery at default is constant, or at the very least independent of the default probability. However, a large body of recent empirical evidence has challenged this assumption and shown that default rates are in fact negatively correlated with recovery rates \cite{ABRS}. Recently, Moody's Analytics proposed a model in the context of credit capital which incorporates this empirically observed correlation within a structural framework \cite{LH}. In this work we revisit Moody's PD-LGD correlation model and in the process complete and extend several results. We then price Bond and Credit Default Swaps with recovery risk using the PD-LGD model under both the Merton and Black-Cox default assumptions, and in addition compute associated risk metrics and Greeks. Our results are then compared with classical results which assume no recovery risk. Talk Slides are available at http://www.math.msu.edu/~albert/CreditTalkAlbion.pdf. Location: Palenske 227 Date: 10/2/2014 Time: 3:30 PM

@abstract{MCS:Colloquium:AlbertCohen:2014:10:2,
author  = "{Albert Cohen}",
title   = "{Bond and CDS Pricing with Stochastic Recovery}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month   = "{2 October}",
year    = "{2014}"
}