Defaultable bonds with an infinite number of Lévy factors
Volume 37 / 2010
Applicationes Mathematicae 37 (2010), 275-307
MSC: Primary 60H30, 91B28; Secondary 60G51.
DOI: 10.4064/am37-3-2
Abstract
A market with defaultable bonds where the bond dynamics is in a Heath–Jarrow–Morton setting and the forward rates are driven by an infinite number of Lévy factors is considered. The setting includes rating migrations driven by a Markov chain. All basic types of recovery are investigated. We formulate necessary and sufficient conditions (generalized HJM conditions) under which the market is arbitrage-free. Connections with consistency conditions are discussed.
