Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments, Second Edition
- 7h 16m
- Antulio N. Bomfim
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2016
Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments, Second Edition is an intuitive, rigorous overview that links the practices of valuing and trading credit derivatives with academic theory. Rather than presenting highly technical explorations, the book offers summaries of major subjects and the principal perspectives associated with them.
The book's centerpiece is pricing and valuation issues, especially valuation tools and their uses in credit models. Five new chapters cover practices that have become commonplace as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, including standardized premiums and upfront payments. Analyses of regulatory responses to the crisis for the credit derivatives market (Basel III, Dodd-Frank, etc.) include all the necessary statistical and mathematical background for readers to easily follow the pricing topics.
Every reader familiar with mid-level mathematics who wants to understand the functioning of the derivatives markets (in both practical and academic contexts) can fully satisfy his or her interests with the comprehensive assessments in this book.
- Explores the role that credit derivatives played during the economic crisis, both as hedging instruments and as vehicles that potentially magnified losses for some investors
- Comprehensive overview of single-name and multi-name credit derivatives in terms of market specifications, pricing techniques, and regulatory treatment
- Updated edition uses current market statistics (market size, market participants, and uses of credit derivatives), covers the application of CDS technology to other asset classes (CMBX, ABX, etc.), and expands the treatment of individual instruments to cover index products, and more
In this Book
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Credit Derivatives—A Brief Overview
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The Credit Derivatives Market
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Main Uses of Credit Derivatives
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Floating-Rate Notes
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Asset Swaps
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Credit Default Swaps
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Total Return Swaps
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Spread and Bond Options
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Basket Default Swaps
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Portfolio Default Swaps
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Principal-Protected Structures
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Credit-Linked Notes
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Repackaging Vehicles
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Synthetic CDOs
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CDS Indexes
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CDS on Commercial Mortgages and Subprime Residential Mortgages
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Valuing Defaultable Bonds
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The Credit Curve
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Main Credit Modeling Approaches
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Valuing Credit Options
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The Basics of Portfolio Credit Risk
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Valuing Basket Default Swaps
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Valuing Portfolio Swaps and CDOs
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A Quick Tour of Commercial Models
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Modeling Counterparty Credit Risk
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Anatomy of a CDS Transaction
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A Primer on Regulatory Issues
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Measuring the Risks Embedded in a CDS Position
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Portfolio-Level Risks and Basic CDS Hedging
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Trading the CDS Curve
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