Introduction

The recent decade has witnessed a rapid development of more and more advanced quantitative methodologies for modeling, valuation, and risk management of credit risk, with focus on credit derivatives that constitute the vast majority of credit markets. In part, this rapid development was a response of academics and practitioners to the demands of trading and risk managing in the rapidly growing market of more and more complex credit derivative products. Even basic credit derivatives such as credit default swaps (CDSs) have witnessed considerable growth, reaching a notional value of US$45 trillion by the end of 2007, although notional amounts fell during 2008 to $38.6 trillion.1 More complex credit derivatives, such as collateralized ...

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