A Generic One Factor Levy Model for Pricing Synthetic CDOs

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A Generic One Factor Lévy Model for Pricing Synthetic CDOs

by Hansjörg Albrecher of the Radon Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz & Graz University of Tech.
Sophie A. Ladoucette of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and
Wim Schoutens of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

September 2006

Abstract: The one-factor Gaussian model is well-known not to fit simultaneously the prices of the different tranches of a collateralized debt obligation (CDO), leading to the implied correlation smile. Recently, other one-factor models based on different distributions have been proposed. Moosbrucker used a one-factor Variance Gamma model, Kalemanova et al. and Guegan and Houdain worked with a NIG factor model and Baxter introduced the BVG model. These models bring more flexibility into the dependence structure and allow tail dependence. We unify these approaches, describe a generic one-factor Lévy model and work out the large homogeneous portfolio (LHP) approximation. Then, we discuss several examples and calibrate a battery of models to market data.

JEL Classification: C60.

Keywords: CDO Lévy processes correlation.

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