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Essays on the valuation and hedging of derivative securities

Dall'O, Hakim ; Barone Adesi, Giovanni (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011ECO001.

This thesis is made of three articles dealing with two main subjects: the so called "Kernel Puzzle" and the problem of immunization of portfolio of treasury and corporate bonds. For the first topic, we provide a new method to derive the state price density per unit probability based on option prices and GARCH model. We derive the risk neutral distribution using the result in Breeden and...

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The term structure of credit spreads and the economic activity

Luisi, Maurizio ; Barone Adesi, Giovanni (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2008 ; 2008ECO007.

We estimate arbitrage-free term structure models of US Treasury yields and spreads on BBB and B-rated corporate bonds in a doubly- stochastic intensity-based framework. A novel feature of our analysis is the inclusion of macroeconomic variables – indicators of real activity, inflation and financial conditions – as well as latent factors, as drivers of term structure dynamics. Our results...

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