Numerical valuation of basket credit derivatives in structural jump-diffusion models

We consider a model where each company’s asset value follows a jump-diusion process, and is connected with other companies via global factors. Motivated by ideas in Bush et al. (2011), where the joint density of asset values is evolved in a large basket approximation, we develop an algorithm for the ecient estimation of CDO index and tranche spreads consistent with underlying CDSs, through a nite dierence simulation of the resulting SPDE. We verify the validity of this approximation numerically by comparison to results obtained by direct Monte Carlo simulation of the basket constituents. A calibration exercise assesses the exibility of the model and its extensions to match CDO spreads from pre-crisis and crisis periods.

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