Counterparty risk for credit default swaps: Impact of spread volatility and default correlation

D Brigo, K Chourdakis - … Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2009 - World Scientific
We consider counterparty risk for Credit Default Swaps (CDS) in presence of correlation
between default of the counterparty and default of the CDS reference credit. Our approach is …

[PDF][PDF] Option pricing using the fractional FFT

K Chourdakis - Journal of computational finance, 2005 - Citeseer
This paper shows how the recently developed fractional fft algorithm (frft) can be used to
retrieve option prices from the corresponding characteristic functions. The frft algorithm has the …

Non-affine option pricing

K Chourdakis - Journal of Derivatives, 2004 - search.proquest.com
This article presents a procedure to approximate European option prices for models with
stochastic volatilities and jumps, focusing on the non-affine case. Unlike simulation-based …

Maximum likelihood estimation of non-affine volatility processes

K Chourdakis, G Dotsis - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we develop a new estimation method for extracting non-affine latent stochastic
volatility and risk premia from measures of model-free realized and risk-neutral integrated …

Switching Lévy models in continuous time: Finite distributions and option pricing

K Chourdakis - University of Essex, Centre for Computational …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces a general regime switching Levy process, and constructs the
characteristic function in closed form. Correlations between the underlying Markov chain and the …

Continuous time regime switching models and applications in estimating processes with stochastic volatility and jumps

K Chourdakis - U of London Queen Mary Economics Working …, 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
A regime switching model in continuous time is introduced where a variety of jumps are
allowed in addition to the diffusive component. The characteristic function of the process is …

Levy processes driven by stochastic volatility

K Chourdakis - Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 2005 - Springer
In this paper we extend option pricing under Lévy dynamics, by assuming that the volatility of
the Lévy process is stochastic. We, therefore, develop the analog of the standard stochastic …

[PDF][PDF] A cross-section across CVA

K Chourdakis, E Epperlin, M Jeannin… - Nomura. Available at …, 2013 - nomura.com
For calculating advanced CVA VaR capital requirement, Basel III states that, where the
counterparty does not have liquid CDS spreads, financial institutions shall use a proxy spread …

Option pricing under discrete shifts in stock returns

K Chourdakis, E Tzavalis - Available at SSRN 252307, 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
In this paper we introduce a pricing model for a European call option when the price of the
underlying stock (asset) follows a random walk with Markov Chain type of shifts in the drift and …

Consistent single-and multi-step sampling of multivariate arrival times: A characterization of self-chaining copulas

D Brigo, K Chourdakis - arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2090, 2012 - arxiv.org
This paper deals with dependence across marginally exponentially distributed arrival times,
such as default times in financial modeling or inter-failure times in reliability theory. We …