Prospective Students Current Students Business & Industry Faculty & Staff Alumni Visitors
 
About Applied Mathematics
AM Home
Message from the Chair
Research Areas
Faculty, Staff & Students
Administration, Contacts
 
Academics
Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Colloquia & Seminars
Courses
 
Of Interest
Employment Opportunities
Remembering Menger, April 14, 2008
About Karl Menger
Computing Resources
For Undergraduates
 
Application Information
Undergraduate Admission
Graduate Admission
Graduate Admission FAQ
Apply Online- Undergraduates
Apply Online- Graduates
Apply Online- MMF
 
Applied Mathematics Office
Engineering 1 Building
Room 208
10 West 32nd Street
Chicago, IL 60616
312.567.8980
312.567.3135 fax
amath@iit.edu
Directions and Map
Jacek Jakubowski
(Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw and Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology)

Levy modelling of defaultable bonds

A market with defaultable bonds modelled by equations with L\'evy noise will be considered during the talk. The main aim is to derive conditions under which the market with defaultable bonds, issued by firms with time dependent and random rating classes, is free of arbitrage. Obtained theorems provide HJM conditions for the arbitrage-free property. It is assumed that the Levy process might be infinite dimensional. Importance of treating models with infinite number of factors was stressed in recent papers of Carmona and Tehranchi (A characterization of hedging portfolios for interest rate contingent claims, Annals of Applied Probability, 14(3), 1267-1294, 2004) and Ekeland and Taflin (A theory of bond portfolios, Annals of applied probability 15, no. 2, 1260-1305, 2005). In my talk it will be considered fractional recovery of market value, fractional recovery of treasury value and fractional recovery of par value. Several default times will be discussed as well. The rating classes change according to a conditional, continuous time Markov chains and the default time is equal to the moment of entering by the firm the worst rating class. My talk is based on joint work with Mariusz Nieweglowski and Jerzy Zabczyk.


Monday, September 26, 4:30pm, E1 Room 106

Last updated by qkhan1@iit,edu on 01/31/06

© 2008 Illinois Institute of Technology 3300 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3793 Tel 312.567.3000