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Record W2110652040 · doi:10.3905/jod.2003.319200

The Valuation of Credit Default Swap Options

2003· article· en· W2110652040 on OpenAlexaff
John C. Hull, Alan White

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Derivatives · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCredit Risk and Financial Regulations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCredit default swapiTraxxCredit derivativeCredit default swap indexCredit riskSynthetic CDOEmbedded optionCredit valuation adjustmentValuation (finance)Derivative (finance)BusinessActuarial scienceSwap (finance)EconomicsFinancial economicsFinanceCredit reference

Abstract

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One of the major financial market developments of the last few years has been extending derivatives technology to the realm of credit risk, with the “plain vanilla” product being the credit default swap (CDS). And as with earlier derivative innovations, more exotic flavors are rapidly being created. In this article, Hull and White present the basic valuation theory for forwards and options on credit default swaps. The two key aspects of risk in a CDS are the probability of a default and the recovery rate given a default. Interestingly, in calibrating the CDS forward and option models to market CDS spreads, the trade-off between the two risk elements makes model valuations quite insensitive to the specific assumption about recovery.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.005
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.059
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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