CVA with wrong-way risk and correlation between defaults: An application to an interest rate swap

This paper presents a counterparty credit risk adjustment model to value overthe-counter financial derivatives. To do so, a bilateral credit valuation adjustment with wrong-way risk (WWR) and dependency between the defaults of both contract parties is developed in line with the Hull-White model (201...

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Autores: Galisteo, Merche, Morillo, Isabel, Preixens, Teresa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/210460
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/210460
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Risc (Economia)
Crèdit
Risk
Credit
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Sumario:This paper presents a counterparty credit risk adjustment model to value overthe-counter financial derivatives. To do so, a bilateral credit valuation adjustment with wrong-way risk (WWR) and dependency between the defaults of both contract parties is developed in line with the Hull-White model (2012), which calculates default probabilities using a hazard rate modelled as an exponential function dependent on the value of the derivative. The model proposed incorporates a modified hazard rate for each entity, which includes the company’s own exposure to credit risk attributable to the other entity’s default. By so doing, a correlation between the respective defaults of the entities party to the financial derivative is added. The model developed is also applied to obtain the fair value of an interest rate swap and the results obtained, using Monte Carlo simulation, demonstrate that the value of this swap adjusted to the credit risk falls when the dependency between the entities’ defaults is considered.