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1 Credit Risk Modeling 1 Pricing Corporate Bonds Bonds rated by rating agencies such as Moody s and S&P Collect data on actively traded bonds Calculate a generic zero-coupon yield curve for each credit rating category Value a newly issued bond using the zero-coupon yield curve for that category Higher yield on a corporate bonds over that of a risk free bond is compensation for possible losses from default (Liquidity is also a factor) Use treasury curve or LIBOR zero curve as the risk free zero curve

2 Credit Risk Modeling 2 Computing Zero-Coupon Yield Curves n year Zero Rate r(n) : e nr(n) is the value of 1 unit of currency invested at the risk free rate for n years Pricing a Coupon yielding Bond Maturity Zero Rate Table 1: Treasury Zero Rates Present value of two year treasury bond with principal 100 that pays coupon at 6% per annum semiannually 3e e e e =98.39 Bond Yield: The yield on a coupon-bearing bond is the discount rate that equates the cash flows on the bond to its market value 3e y e y e y e y 2.0 =98.39 y =6.76%

3 Credit Risk Modeling 3 Determining Treasury Zero Rates Bond principal Maturity Annual coupon Bond price Table 2: Prices of Coupon Yielding Bonds 100 = 97.5e r(0.25) 0.25 r(0.25) = % r(0.5) = %, r(1.0) = % 4e e e r(1.5) 1.5 =96 r(1.5) = %

4 Credit Risk Modeling 4 Probability of Default: Quick Estimate y(t )(y (T )) : Yield on a T year corporate (risk-free) zero-coupon bond Q(T ): Probability that corporation will default between time zero and time T Recovery Rate R Proportion of claimed amount received in the event of default Value of the Bond [Q(T ) 100R +(1 Q(T )) 100]e y (T )T y(t )T = 100e e y (T )T e y(t )T = Q(T )(1 R)e y (T )T Q(T )= 1 e [y(t ) y (T )]T 1 R [y(t ) y (T )] : Spread Q(T ): Risk-Neutral Probability y(t ): Not observed Claim amount = Face Value + Accrued Interest

5 Credit Risk Modeling 5 Probability of Default: More Realistic Assumptions N coupon bearing bonds issued by the corporation being considered or by another corporation with roughly same probabilities of default Bond maturity times t 1 <t 2 < <t n q(t) :Default probability density B j : Price of the j th bond G j : Price of a risk free bond with same cash flow as the j th bond F j (t) :Forward price of the j th bond for a forward contract maturing at time t<t j assuming bond is default free v(t) :present value of 1 received at time t with certainty R j (t) :Recovery rate for default of j th bond at time t<t j

6 Credit Risk Modeling 6 G j B j = q(t) = N i=1 q i1 {ti 1 <t t i } tj 0 q(t)v(t)f j (t)(1 R j (t))dt β ij = ti t i 1 v(t)f j (t)(1 R j (t))dt Determine the q j s inductively q j = G j B j j 1 i=1 q iβ ij β jj Results can be extended to the case when recovery and interest rates are random but mutually independent and independent of default events A-Rated bond with 30% recovery rate and yield 70 basis points above the risk-free rate will give a p.d. of 5%. Historical default probability is only 0.57%. Credit ratings are revised relatively infrequently

7 Credit Risk Modeling 7 Credit Derivatives Credit Default Swaps CDS - Contract that provides Insurance against the risk of a default Total par value of the bond is called notional principal Cash settlement - (100 Z)% of notional principal, where Z is the mid market price some specified number of days after the credit event Physical delivery - Deliver the bonds in exchange for par value Example: Consider a 5 yr. CDS with notional principal 100 million entered on March 1, Buyer pays 90 basis points annually. No Default: Buyer pays 900, 000 on March 1 of each year from 2003 to 2007 Default event: Credit event on September 1, Buyer sells 100 million worth of bonds and receives 100 million and pays the accrued payment amount (approx. 450, 000)

8 Credit Risk Modeling 8 Example: CDS swaps allow companies to manage their credit risk actively. Suppose a bank has several millions dollars of loans outstanding to Enron on Jan Buy a 100 million 5-yr. CDS on Enron from market for 135 BP or 1.35 million per year. This would shift part of the bank s credit exposure to Enron. OR 2. Exchange part of the exposure to a company in a totally different industry Sell a five year 100 million CDS on Nissan for 1.25 million NetCost=100, 000 per year

9 Credit Risk Modeling 9 Valuation of CDS Assume notional to be 1 Assume that default events, interest rates and recovery rates are independent T : Life of credit default swap in years q t : Risk neutral probability of default at time t R(t) :Recovery rate when default happens at time t u(t) :present value of payments made at the rate of 1 per year on payment dates between 0 and t v(t) :present value of 1 received at time t w : Payments per year made by CDS buyer s : Value of w that causes the CDS to have a value of zero π : The risk neutral probability of no credit event during the life of the swap A(t) :Accrued interest on the reference obligation at time t as percent of face value

10 Credit Risk Modeling 10 Valuation of CDS T 0 [1 R(t)(1 + A(t))]q(t)v(t)dt w T 0 q(t)u(t)dt + wπu(t )= 0 Credit Default Swap Spread s = T 0 [1 R(t)(1 + A(t))]q(t)v(t)dt T q(t)u(t)dt + wπu(t ) 0

11 Credit Risk Modeling 11 Implying Default Probabilities from CDS Swaps Suppose CDS spreads for maturities t 1,t 2,...,t n are s 1,s 2,...,s n Assume default probability density q(t) = N i=1 q i1 {ti 1 <t t i } s i = i k=1 q tk k t k 1 [1 R(t)(1 A i (t))v(t)]dt i k=1 q tk k t k 1 u(t)dt + u(t i )[1 i k=1 q k(t k t k 1 )] δ k = t k t k 1, α k = tk t k 1 (1 R(t))v(t)dt β k,i = tk t k 1 A i (t)r(t)v(t)dt, γ k = tk t k 1 u(t)dt q i = s iu(t i )+ i 1 k=1 q k[s i (γ k u(t i )δ k ) α k + β k,i ] α i β i,i s i (γ i u(t i )δ i )

12 Credit Risk Modeling 12 Basket Credit Default Swaps Number of reference entities Add-up basket CDS - provides a payoff when any of the reference entities default portfolio of CDS, one for each entity First-to-default basket CDS - payoff only when the first reference entity defaults k th -to-default CDS - payoff only when the k th default happens Modeling Dependencies

13 Credit Risk Modeling 13 Modeling Dependencies via Copulas Joint distribution of default times Gaussian Copula F (t 1,t 2,...,t n )=C(F 1 (t 1 ),...,F n (t n )) C(u 1,...,u n )=N n (N 1 (u 1 ),...,N 1 (u n ); Γ) Simulation: Generate a realization of n correlated normal variables Z 1,...,Z n from N n ( ;Γ). Obtain default times τ i = F 1 i (N(Z i )) Value Swaps using Monte-Carlo Simulations

14 Credit Risk Modeling 14 Dynamic Intensity Models Reduced Form Model Basic Affine or Intensity Process N firms in portfolio, S sectors dλ(t) = κ(θ λ(t)) dt + σ λ(t) db(t)+ J(t) Correlated defaults λ i = X i + a i X s(i) + b i X c X s(i),x i,x c independent BAP representing the sectoral risk, the idiosyncratic risk and common risk X p BAP with parameters (κ, θ p,σ,µ,l p ), p = i, s(i),c, i =1,...,N, s(i) S. λ i : BAP Simulate realizations of λ i ( ) and hence the compensator process Λ i (t) = t 0 λ i(u)du Simulate independent unit mean exponential random variables E 1,...,E n τ i =min{t;λ i (t) =E i } if Λ i (T ) <E i.

15 Credit Risk Modeling 15 Calibrating the Model Data: Default Probabilities, Default Correlations, Yield Spreads Long Run Mean: p (θ p + l p µ/κ) Multi-Issuer Default: If X c jumps, all λ i jump and if X s(i) jumps, default intensities of all obligors in sector s(i) jump Explicit formulas for default correlations Conditional survival probability p i (t, s) =exp [ α(s)+ p β p (s)x p (t) ] Coefficients can be obtained explicitly (see Appendix of Credit Risk by Duffie and Singleton)

16 Credit Risk Modeling 16 Structural Credit Models Firm s market value V follows a geometric Brownian motion dv t V t = µdt+ σdw t ; V 0 > 0 V t = V 0 e mt+σw t, m = µ 1 2 σ2 Firm is financed by equity and a zero coupon bond with face value K with maturity date T Bond investors have absolute priority in case of default Firm defaults if τ =min(τ 1,τ 2 ) T, τ 2 = T if V T <K and otherwise L = K V 0 : initial leverage ratio τ 1 =inf{t 0:V t <D}

17 Credit Risk Modeling 17 Default Probability Apply Girsanov p(t ) = 1 P [M T >D, V T >K] = ( ) ( log L mt D N σ + T V 0 Payoff to Equity Investors ) 2m σ N ( log(d 2 /(KV 0 )) + mt σ T ) E T =max(0, (V T K)1 {MT D}) European down-and-out call option with strike K, barrier D<Kand maturity T E 0 = C(σ, T, K, r, V 0 ) V 0 ( D V 0 ) 2m σ 2 +1 N(h + )+Ke rt ( D V 0 ) 2m σ 2 1 N(h ) h ± = (r ± 1 2 σ2 )T +log(d 2 /(KV 0 )) σ T Back-out asset price and its volatility from Equity price and its volatility

18 Credit Risk Modeling 18 Payoff to Bond Investors at Maturity B T T = K (K V T ) + +(V T K) + 1 {MT <D} Risk free loan, short European put, long down-and-in call B T 0 = Ke rt P (σ, T, K, r, V 0 )+DIC(σ, T, K, D, r, V 0 ) Credit Spread S(t, T )= 1 ( B T T t log t B t T ) Spreads S(0,T) increase and then decrease with T Assume that total debt grows at positive rate or that fim maintains some target leverage ratio Time varying default barrier

19 Credit Risk Modeling 19 KMV s Risk Neutral DP Default Probability ( DP real (t) =p(t) =1 P [V t >C]=N log(v 0/C)+(µ σ 2 ) /2)t σ t ( DP rn (t) =N log(v 0/C)+(r σ 2 ) /2)t σ t ( DP rn (T )=N N 1 (DP real (t)) + µ r ) t σ Expected Excess Market Return CAPM µ = r + βπ, DP rn (t) =N π = µ m r σ β = ρ a,m σ m ( ) N 1 (DP rn π (t)) + ρ a,m t θ σ m Sharpe Ratio π/σ m obtained from market data Spread of the Risky Zero Bond e (r+s)t =[(1 DP rn (t)+(1 LGD)DP rn (t)]e rt

20 Credit Risk Modeling 20 Collateralized Debt Obligations CDO CDO is an asset backed security whose underlying collateral is typically a portfolio of corporate bonds or commercial loans It is a way of packaging credit risk Bank transfers the portfolio to an SPV and receives cash SPV issues fixed/floating rate notes to investors Notes are divided by order of seniority into tranches called equity tranche, mezzanine tranche(s) and senior tranche Investors receive the principal and interest from the portfolio in order of seniority

21 Credit Risk Modeling 21 Types of CDOs Cash Flow CDOs: Collateral portfolio is not subject to active trading. All uncertainty regarding interest and principal payments is determined by timing of defaults Market Value CDO: Payments based on mark-to-market returns. Economics of CDOs CDOs become attractive due to market imperfections arising due to regulatory capital requirements, low valuations due to lack of liquidity, etc.

22 Credit Risk Modeling 22 Two classes of CDOs Balance-sheet CDOs Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLO) removes loans from the banks balance sheet providing capital relief and improve valuations Synthetic balance sheet CLO No actual transfer of ownership due to client secrecy obligations or cost arising due to contractual restrictions. Use credit derivatives to transfer risk to the SPV Arbitrage CDOs Capture the difference in price due to lower cost of aquiring the collateral pool in the secondary market and the value received from management fees and sale of the CDO

23 Credit Risk Modeling 23 Tranche % Notional Yield SoL Rating Senior Aa2 Mezzanine-I Baa3 Mezzanine-II Ba1 Equity NR Table 3: CDO Example (illustrative only) Pricing Model the correlated default process of individual securities comprising the portfolio Copula or factor based Static Dynamic intensity models Calibration Model calibrated based on market data Will need a model for the term structure of interest rates in case of floating notes Rachev et. al. Calibrating the CR + model to reproduce itraxx tranche quotes

24 Credit Risk Modeling 24 Top Down Approach Copula based approaches found highly inadequate Need models to capture the dynamics in a more meaningful way TopDownApproach: Model the index on which options are to be priced Three Recent Papers A New Framework for Dynamic Credit Portfolio Loss Modeling, Sidenius, Piterberg, Andersen, 2005 Portfolio Losses and the term structure of Loss transition rates: New methodology for the pricing of portfolio credit derivatives, Schonbucher, 2005 Pricing credit from top down with affine point processes, Errais, Giesecke, Goldberg, 2006

25 Credit Risk Modeling 25 Self Affecting Point Processes Hawkes Process: J =(L, N) Loss and Number of defaults share common event times that arrive with intensity λ t = c t + t d(s) =δe κs Intensity is governed by two factors Timing of Past Events Realized loss scaled by δ 0 d(t s)dl s ρ(s) c(t) =c(0)e κt + κ level of mean reversion t 0 e κ(t s) ρ(s)ds Hawkes arrivals are clustered dλ t = κ(ρ(t) λ t )dt + δdl t At event times, J jumps according to a measure ν

26 Credit Risk Modeling 26 Conditional Transform If ρ(t) is constant then ρ(t) =λ c(t) =λ + e κt (c(0) λ ) N always has jumps of size 1. ν is the distribution of loss at default E[e u J s G t ]=e a(u,t,s)+b(u,t,s)+u J t t b(t) = κb(t) φ(δb(t),u)+1 t a(t) = κλ b(t) a(s) =b(s) =0 φ(c, u) =e u (0,1) e (c+u (1,0) )z dν(z) Invert transform to obtain the pdf of J s given G t 0

27 Credit Risk Modeling 27 Index Swap There exists a filtered probability space with a pricing measure Q. All expectations are with respect to this measure. Index portfolio with n constituent name swaps with common notional I/n, common maturity date T and common premium payment dates (t m ) Value of Default leg at time t [ ] T D t = E e r(s t) dl s G t t = e r(t t) E[L T G t ] L t + r T t e r(s t) E[L s G t ]ds Premium notional I t : time t Total notional on names that have survived until I t = I ( 1 N ) t n

28 Credit Risk Modeling 28 Value of premium leg P t (S) = E CDS index value at time t t m t = SI t m t e r(tm t) Sα m I tm G t e r(t m t) α m (1 1 n E[N t m G t ]) S t = e r(t t) E[L T G t ] L t + r T e r(s t) E[L t s G t ]ds I t m t e r(t m t) α m (1 1 n E[N t m G t ])

29 Credit Risk Modeling 29 Tranche Swap Lower Attachment Point: A L [0, 1] Upper Attachment Point: A U (A L, 1] K = A U A L Tranche Notional: Contract Notional I KI Cumulative payments under the Default leg U t =(L t IA L ) + (L t IA U ) + Value of Default leg payments at time t T [ ] T D t = E e r(s t) du s G s t = e r(t t) E[U T G t ] U t + r T Premium Leg has two parts: Upfront payment: F fraction of the notional KI t e r(s t) E[U s G t ]ds Payments proportional to I t = KI U t

30 Credit Risk Modeling 30 P t (F, S) = FKI + E e r(tm t) Sα m I tm G t t m t = S e r(tm t) α m (KI E[U tm G t ]) t m t

31 Credit Risk Modeling 31 Premium rate for fixed upfront payment F S t = e r(t t) E[U T G t ] U t + r T e r(s t) E[U t s G t ]ds FKI t m t e r(t m t) α m (KI E[U tm G t ]) Upfront payment for fixed premium rate S ( F = 1 e r(t t) E[U T G t ] U t + r KI S t m t T t e r(s t) E[U s G t ]ds e r(tm t) α m (KI E[U tm G t ])

32 Credit Risk Modeling 32 Generalization λ t = λ(x t,t)=λ 0 (t)+λ 1 (t) X t X(t) : vector of risk factors dx t = µ(x t )dt + σ(x t )dw t + dz t + ζdj t dλ t = κ(λ λ t )dt + σdw t + δdl t Discounted Conditional transform E [e R ] s t ρ(xv,v)dv e u J u G t = e α(u,t,s)+β(u,t,s)+u J t

33 Credit Risk Modeling 33 Hedging Single names Random Thinning n N = i=1 N i λ i = Y i λ Y i t Probability that name i experiences a event given that there is an event Choose model for Y i process and calibrate from securities referenced on the i th constituent name, say using least squares subject to non-negativity and summation constraint Algorithm for delta hedging i t M t M i t

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