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A Structural Model for Credit-Equity Derivatives and Bespoke CDOs

by Claudio Albanese , and
Alicia Vidler of Merrill Lynch

September 9, 2007

Abstract: We present a new structural model for single name equity and credit derivatives which we also correlate across reference names to produce a model for bespoke synthetic CDOs. The model captures volatility and outlook risk along with correlation risk for small and for large moves separately. We show that the model calibrates well to both equity structured products and credit derivatives. As examples, we discuss a number of single name derivatives on IBM spanning the credit-equity spectrum and ranging from volatility swaps, to cliquets, CDS options and CDSs on leveraged loans with pre-payment risk. We also use the model to price tranches on the investment grade DJ.CDX.IG index along with tranches on the high yield index DJ.CDX.HY. We show that the model gives consistent and high precision pricing across all these derivative asset classes. We show that this can be achieved consistently, with the very same parameter choices across these diverse derivative assets and making use of only minor explicit time dependencies.

Keywords: Bespoke CDOs, equity derivatives, correlation modeling, vega convexity, dynamic conditioning, abelian path dependencies.

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