Abstract
In this paper, we study the valuation of power exchange options with a correlated hybrid credit risk when the underlying assets follow the jump-diffusion processes. The hybrid credit risk model is constructed using two credit risk models (the reduced-form model and the structural model), and the jump-diffusion processes are proposed based on the assumptions of Merton. We assume that the dynamics of underlying assets have correlated continuous terms as well as idiosyncratic and common jump terms. Under the proposed model, we derive the explicit pricing formula of the power exchange option using the measure change technique with multidimensional Girsanov’s theorem. Finally, the formula is presented as the normal cumulative functions and the infinite sums.
1. Introduction
The pricing problem of option with credit risk, which is called the ‘vulnerable option’, has been studied by many researchers. For modeling the credit risk, researchers have adopted the structural model or the reduced-form model in general. The structural model was first used by Johnson and Stulz [1] to price the vulnerable European option under the Black–Scholes framework [2]. Later, Klein [3] considered the correlation between the firm value process of the option writer and the underlying asset process for a more realistic assumption. With these results, there have been many studies on the improvement of the pricing model for the vulnerable option under the structural model. Models such as the stochastic interest rate model [4], early counterparty risk model [5,6], stochastic volatility model [7,8,9,10] and jump-diffusion model [11,12,13,14] have been used to extend the pricing models of vulnerable options under the structural model. In addition, the pricing models of vulnerable options under the reduced-form model have been studied in recent years. Fard [15] studied the vulnerable European option of the reduced-form model under a generalized jump-diffusion model. Koo and Kim [16] provided the explicit pricing formula of a catastrophe put option with exponential jump and credit risk using the multidimensional Girsanov’s theorem. Wang [17] also proposed a reduced-form model based on a Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) process for valuing vulnerable options in discrete time.
Recently, hybrid credit risk models that combine the structural model and reduced-form model were proposed to develop the credit risk models for vulnerable options [18,19,20]. The hybrid model is more realistic because it reflects the characteristics of both models. In other words, exogenous and endogenous risk are modeled via the hybrid model. We also consider a hybrid credit risk model for the valuation of vulnerable options in this paper. Specifically, we study the valuation of power exchange options under the hybrid credit risk model.
The power exchange option was first studied by Blenman and Clark [21]. They derived the pricing formula of power exchange options under the Black–Scholes model. There have been various extensions to improve the pricing model of power exchange options. Wang [22] extended the framework of Blenman and Clark by incorporating the correlated jump risk. Pasricha and Goel [23] proposed a Hawkes jump diffusion model to price power exchange options. In addition, there have been studies on the valuation of power exchange options with credit risk. Wang, Song and Wang [24] presented a pricing model of power exchange options with credit risk and jump diffusion under the structural model. They considered the idiosyncratic and common jump components in the correlated dynamics for the pricing model of a vulnerable power exchange option. Xu and Shao and Wang [25] considered the credit risk of the counterparty prior to the maturity, and provided an analytical pricing formula of power exchange options with credit risk. Pasricha and Goel [26] studied the valuation of vulnerable power exchange options under a reduced-form model. The dynamics in [26] are assumed to be driven by jump-diffusion processes. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies on vulnerable power exchange options with a hybrid credit risk under the jump-diffusion model. In this paper, we focus on the valuation of power exchange options with a hybrid credit risk under the jump-diffusion model, and provide an explicit pricing formula for the option.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we introduce the models for the underlying assets and the intensity, and construct a hybrid credit risk model. In Section 3, we derive the explicit pricing formula for the power exchange option with a hybrid credit risk when underlying assets follow the jump-diffusion models. Section 4 provides the concluding remarks.
2. Model
We consider power exchange options with credit risk under the jump-diffusion model of Merton [27]. For the risk-neutral valuation of options, we assume that the uncertainty in the economy satisfies a filtered probability space , where Q is the risk-neutral measure. Under the measure Q, the dynamics of underlying assets follow jump-diffusion processes
where r is the risk-free interest rate, and are constant volatilities of the underlying assets, respectively. For hybrid credit risk modeling, we use the reduced-form model of Fard [15] and the the structural model of Klein [3]. For the structural model, the asset of the option writer is assumed as the following process:
where is the volatility of the asset of the option writer. For the reduced-form model, as in Fard [15], we assume that the intensity process follows in the following form:
where are positive constants, and , , and are the correlated standard Brownian motions under the measure Q with . The term , which presents the common jump, is a Poisson process with an intensity , and , and , which present individual jumps, are Poisson processes with intensities , and , respectively. We also assume that the Poisson processes , , and are mutually independent, and the jump sizes are controlled by and when the jumps occur over a given period. As in Merton [27], follows a normal distribution with mean and variance , and follow normal distributions with mean and variance . Then, we can define the compensator in the processes as
Additionally, it is assumed that , and , are independent of
In fact, the jump-diffusion models have been used widely to describe the underlying assets in the real financial market. For real examples, see [28,29,30]. We derive the pricing formula of power exchange options with credit risk when the underlying assets follow jump-diffusion models in the next section.
3. Valuation of Power Exchange Option with a Hybrid Credit Risk
In this section, we provide the pricing formula of power exchange options with a hybrid credit risk based on the models introduced in the previous section. Let C be the initial price of a power exchange option with the hybrid credit risk under the risk-neutral measure Q, and then the price C is given by
where are positive constants, T is the maturity, is the default time by , is the deadweight cost and D is the value of the option writer’s liability. Since the default time is defined by , the price C is represented as
To obtain and , we need the following lemmas.
Lemma 1.
If we define a new measure equivalent to Q by the Radon–Nikodym derivative
then the following results are obtained under the measure .
(1) Under , , , , are standard Brownian motions (where ).
(2) Under , and are independent Poisson processes with respective intensities
(3) Under , and are independent Poisson processes with respective intensities
(4) Under ,
(5) Under ,
(6) and have the same distributions under and Q.
(7) and have the same distributions under and Q.
Proof.
The Radon–Nikodym derivative for the measure is calculated as
Then, we obtain the results immediately by Girsanov’s theorem (for more details, see [31,32]). □
Similarly, we can obtain the following results.
Lemma 2.
If we define a new measure equivalent to Q by the Radon–Nikodym derivative
then the following results are obtained under the measure .
(1) Under , , , , are standard Brownian motions (where ).
(2) Under , and are independent Poisson processes with respective intensities
(3) Under , and are independent Poisson processes with respective intensities
(4) Under ,
(5) and have the same distributions under and Q.
(6) and have the same distributions under and Q.
Lemma 3.
If we define a new measure equivalent to Q by the Radon–Nikodym derivative
then the following results are obtained under the measure .
(1) Under ,
are standard Brownian motions, where .
(2) Under , and are independent Poisson processes with intensities and , respectively.
(3) and have the same distributions under and Q.
Applying the measure change technique repeatedly with the above lemmas, we derive the pricing formula of power exchange options with the hybrid credit risk under the jump-diffusion model in the following propositions.
Proposition 1.
In the proposed framework, is given by
where and are defined in Lemma 1, and and are as follows.
where is the cumulative standard normal distribution function and
Proof.
First, we divide into two expectations.
To calculate , we define a new measure such that
Under the measure ,
where the first expectation in (12) can be calculated directly. To complete the calculation of , we have to obtain the second expectation in (12) by conditioning over the exact number of Poisson jumps. Let ; then, the probability that Poisson random variables take these values is defined as
From Lemma 1, the second expectation in (12) becomes
By the properties of the distributions under the measure , the second expectation in (12) is calculated as
Then, is completed. To calculate , we define a new measure such that
Then, by using the results in Lemma 1 under the measure , can be derived similarly to . □
Proposition 2.
In the proposed framework, is given by
where and are defined in Lemma 2, and and are as follows.
where is the cumulative bivariate normal distribution function and
Proof.
in (6) is divided into the following expectations.
We now calculate using Lemmas 2 and 3. We first adopt the new measure equivalent to measure Q defined by
Then, becomes
Since the first expectation in (16) is calculated directly, we focus on the second expectation in (16). By Lemma 3, the dynamic of under the measure is represented as
where . With the dynamic of , we define a new measure such that
Then, the second expectation in (16) becomes
The first expectation in (17) is calculated directly under the measure . Thus, we focus on the calculation of the second expectation in (17) with the measure . Let , and then the probability that Poisson random variables take these values is defined as
Applying Lemma 2, under the measure , we have
Since
we have
where , and is obtained.
In a similar way, can be derived. Then, the proof is completed. □
For the calculation of , we follow similar steps as in Proposition 2. Applying the measure change technique with Lemmas 1 and 3, is derived.
Proposition 3.
In the proposed framework, is given by
where and are defined in Lemma 1, and and are as follows.
where is the cumulative bivariate normal distribution function,
and are defined in Proposition 2.
From Propositions 1–3, the explicit pricing formula of power exchange options with the hybrid credit risk and jump diffusion is completed.
4. Concluding Remarks
In this paper, we deal with the valuation of power exchange options with a hybrid credit risk. To construct the hybrid credit risk model, we combine the reduced-form model of Fard [15] and the structural model of Klein [3]. This hybrid model was considered to price vulnerable exchange options in Kim [20]. In fact, the main contribution of this paper is an extension of [20]. To extend the work of [20], we assume that underlying assets follow the correlated jump-diffusion models, and consider vulnerable exchange options in which the payoff at expiry is related to the power of the stock dynamic. For the jump-diffusion model, which is a generalization of the Black–Scholes model, which follows the Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) process, we adopt the model of Merton [27]. To obtain the pricing formula based on the probabilistic approach, the measure change technique is employed. Finally, we provide the explicit pricing formula of power exchange options with the hybrid credit risk using the cumulative normal functions and infinite sums. This result may apply to the pricing of other types of options with a hybrid credit risk under jump-diffusion model.
Although we derive the option pricing formula mathematically well under the proposed model, this paper has several limitations. Thus, we propose the following directions of future research to overcome the limitations. Firstly, it would be interesting to carry out numerically a computational study for vulnerable power exchange options with jump diffusion to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the formula. The second is to find the impacts of the hybrid credit risk with respect to some parameters. In addition, our model can be extended with the stochastic volatility models. The above will be considered in future research.
Author Contributions
J.J. and G.K. designed the model; J.J. and G.K. contributed to the analysis of the mathematical model; J.J. proved the propositions in the paper; J.J. and G.K. wrote the paper. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
Junkee Jeon gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through a grant funded by the Korean government (Grant No. NRF-2020R1C1C1A01007313). Geonwoo Kim is supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korea government (Grant No. NRF-2017R1E1A1A03070886).
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Informed Consent Statement
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Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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