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We construct a Markovian set-up that specifies the standard market model for
convertible bonds (CBs), namely a model with stock-dependent local default
intensity and local volatility. Generically, it can be shown that the problem
of convertible bond essentially reduces to the study of an associated Dynkin
game, which can be studied using the theory of doubly reflected Backward
Stochastic Differential Equations (R2BSDE). In the case of the standard
market model for CBs, we show that the associated R2BSDE has a unique solution,
we characterize the pre-default price of the CB as the unique viscosity solution
of the associated variational inequality, and we give conditions ensuring
convergence of deterministic approximation schemes.
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