Extension of Spot Recovery Model for Gaussian Copula

Li, Hui (2009): Extension of Spot Recovery Model for Gaussian Copula. Unpublished.

Abstract

Heightened systematic risk in the credit crisis has created challenges to CDO pricing and risk management. One important focus has been on the modeling of stochastic recovery. Different approaches within the Gaussian Copula framework have been proposed, but a consistent model was lacking until the recent paper of Bennani and Maetz [6] which shifted the modeling from period recovery to spot recovery. In this paper, we generalize their model to an arbitrary spot recovery distribution setup and extend the deterministic dependency on systematic factor to a random one. Besides, an extra parameter is introduced to control the correlation between default and recovery rate and the correlation between the recovery rates.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: CDO, Gaussian Copula, Stochastic Recovery, Spot Recovery Model
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G32 - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G13 - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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