资本资产定价研究:基于损失厌恶、追赶时髦和习惯形成的新进展

为了推进资产定价理论的研究以及更好的解释重要的市场异象,本文通过在效用函数中引入投资者的异质假定,构造了一个投资者偏好由习惯形成,追赶时髦以及损失厌恶共同决定的效用函数,并在这个更加真实的效用函数的基础上建立了一个能够更好的解释市场异象的新的消费基础资本资产定价模型.另外,文章运用欧拉方程推出了模型的资产收益定价方程.通过定价方程,我们可以期望更好的同时解释溢价之谜,无风险利率之谜等重要的市场异象.这证明了引入合理的行为偏好才是解决股票溢价等问题的关键.     

Hull-White模型在次级债定价中的应用研究

美国次级债危机引起了全球金融市场的动荡，这使得国内外风险管理者们不得不更加关注由于信用风险带来的种种问题。在我国还没有一种公认的理论或方法能够实际解决信用风险的定价问题。本文力图寻找一种不完全依赖于信用评级的信用风险定价方法，利用市场即时信息而不是历史信息对信用风险溢价进行估算，从而寻找到一套在中国市场具有操作性的信用风险定价方法。本文应用三叉树模拟的方法来构建基于Hull-White模型的信用风险定价模型，并应用市场数据对两类次级债基础衍生品进行了定价。这一研究具有较好的可操作性，对中国信用风险定价研究领域提供了有利补充，为中国证券市场动态信用风险管理提供新的思路和可能的解决渠道。     

波动率风险溢价:基于香港权证市场的实证

波动率风险溢价包含了关于投资者风险厌恶的重要信息,它的估计是金融计量学文献关注的一个核心问题。本文基于香港权证市场数据和GARCH扩散随机波动率(SV)模型,对香港证券市场的波动率风险溢价进行了估计研究。采用香港恒生指数和指数权证数据,通过建立基于有效重要性抽样的极大似然(EIS-ML)方法联合估计了GARCH扩散模型的客观与风险中性测度,进而得到了香港证券市场的波动率风险溢价。研究结果发现,在香港证券市场上,市场投资者对波动率风险进行了定价,即存在波动率风险溢价,且波动率风险溢价在绝大多数情形下为正,说明市场投资者总体表现为风险爱好。     

一般均衡下基于产品市场和资本市场的单名CDS定价

次贷危机呼吁新的信用衍生品定价模型, 因此为存在产品市场和资本市场的经济结构建立一般均衡的单名CDS定价模型, 使用最优化求解一般均衡下的商品价格和CDS价格. 可以发现一般均衡的CDS定价具有资本市场和产品市场的因素, 这表示CDS的价格不再是由单纯的资本市场因素决定的, 而是由无风险利率、资本产出弹性、违约率、回收率同时决定的. 通过数量约束用模拟的方式研究多个均衡的动态变化, 发现违约风险的增加使得价格剧烈波动且市场交易萎缩. 在为以中国工商银行为参考资产的CDS定价过程中, 发现各种因素在不同的时期都可能成为定价的主要影响因素. 可以发现, 次贷危机的定价体系存在着信用调整问题和定价与实体经济脱节的问题. 可以认为, 一般均衡下基于产品市场和资本市场的单名CDS定价可以囊括多个市场的交叉影响, 为衍生品定价提供一个新的方向.     

半参数模型在卖空机制引入中的应用

卖空作为一种重要的金融创新,经常被人们提及,但很多人却对卖空心存疑虑.中国证券市场从1990年建立以来仍无法进行卖空交易,其中一个重要的原因就是管理层担心卖空交易会导致市场大幅波动,影响金融体系的稳定性.首先,通过具有相关误差的半参数回归模型探讨了发达市场以及新兴市场的卖空机制与市场波动率的关系,结果发现卖空机制确实会增加市场的波动.其次,根据研究的结果,对我国证券市场交易机制的建立提出了一些建议,以期对我国正在拟议中的股票卖空机制有所借鉴.     

换手率承载了何种市场信息？——基于有限套利视角的分析

换手率作为股票市场信息传递的重要媒介之一,对股票交易活跃程度的衡量发挥着重要作用。研究表明,换手率可以取得显著的负向溢价。然而,换手率究竟承载了何种市场信息,即换手率负向溢价的本质,现有文献并未达成共识。本文从有限套利的视角出发,构建独特的综合套利限制指数,并采用投资组合分析以及Fama-Macbeth回归等方法,详细对比了当前两大主流假说——“流动性溢价”的风险补偿假说及“投资者异质信念”的错误定价假说对换手率溢价的解释能力。研究发现,换手率的负向溢价在套利限制程度高的股票中表现的更加显著和持久。由此说明,换手率负向溢价作为一种市场无效现象,其本质更倾向于由投资者异质信念所引致的错误定价。最后,本文利用融资融券制度的推出作为一个独特的“外生政策冲击”,采用DID方法增加了上述结论的可信性。     

过度自信与风险溢价研究

非理性投资者的心理会影响风险溢价。本文基于投资者的过度自信心理偏差构建了证券投资的理性风险溢价度量模型、非理性风险溢价度量模型,并利用理性投资者和非理性投资者的相互作用,构建了证券投资的市场风险溢价度量模型,研究了非理性风险溢价对理性风险溢价和市场风险溢价的偏离问题。研究结论表明:非理性风险溢价偏离市场风险溢价的程度依赖于非理性投资者的市场价值权重。     

从投资情绪角度看股票市场流动性——来自B股向境内居民开放的研究

我们借鉴行为方面的模型,即投资情绪的变化会影响股票市场的流动性,从而影响股票的未来收益。在卖空限制条件下市场高流动性预示市场充斥着非理性投资者。本文通过中国股市具备卖空限制和2001年2月B股向境内居民开放前后B股投资主体(投资情绪)发生变化这一自然事件,实证分析了B股市场向境内居民开放后,投资者情绪变化引起市场流动性增加,对股票预期收益的流动性溢价影响也由开放前的不显著变化为显著。     

VIX期权的状态转换随机波动率定价模型

基于Heston随机波动率模型提出了一种新的VIX期权定价模型,其中模型参数跟宏观经济状态有关,其状态方程满足连续时间的Markov Chain过程,在此基础上,得到了VIX看涨期权的定价公式.与传统的随机波动率模型相比,提出的期权定价公式中考虑了经济状态变换的风险溢价.最后,做了Monte Carlo数值模拟,并对数值结果进行了比较和解释.     

人民币利率互换中风险的市场价格

为研究人民币利率互换市场中流动性风险和违约风险的市场价格,运用三因子广义高斯仿射模型,同时对人民币国债市场利率、银行间质押式回购市场利率和利率互换市场利率进行模拟,并采用极大似然估计方法估计众多参数。结果发现,在目前的人民币利率互换定价过程中,流动性要素相对违约要素更加重要,市场给予流动性风险以显著的风险溢价。如采用互换利差定价法为人民币利率互换定价的话,可以以回购利率作为基准,在此基础上考虑信用风险来进行。     

On pricing of credit spread options

This paper describes and analyses different pricing models for credit spread options such as Longstaff–Schwartz, Black, Das–Sundaram and Duan (GARCH-based) models. The first two models, Longstaff–Schwartz and Black, assume respectively a mean-reverting dynamic and a lognormal distribution for the spread and are representative of the so-called “spread models”. Such models consider the spread as a unique variable and provide closed form solutions for option pricing. On the contrary Das–Sundaram propose a recursive backward induction procedure to price credit spread options on a bivariate tree, which describes the dynamic of the term structure of forward risk-neutral spread and risk-free rate. This model belongs to the class of structural models, which can be used to price a wider range of credit risk derivatives. Finally, we consider the pricing of credit spread options assuming a discrete time GARCH model for the spread.     

On the simulation of portfolios of interest rate and credit risk sensitive securities

We discuss extensions of reduced-form and structural models for pricing credit risky securities to portfolio simulation and valuation. Stochasticity in interest rates and credit spreads is captured via reduced-form models and is incorporated with a default and migration model based on the structural credit risk modelling approach. Calculated prices are consistent with observed prices and the term structure of default-free and defaultable interest rates. Three applications are discussed: (i) study of the inter-temporal price sensitivity of credit bonds and the sensitivity of future portfolio valuation with respect to changes in interest rates, default probabilities, recovery rates and rating migration, (ii) study of the structure of credit risk by investigating the impact of disparate risk factors on portfolio risk, and (iii) tracking of corporate bond indices via simulation and optimisation models. In particular, we study the effect of uncertainty in credit spreads and interest rates on the overall risk of a credit portfolio, a topic that has been recently discussed by Kiesel et al. [The structure of credit risk: spread volatility and ratings transitions. Technical report, Bank of England, ISSN 1268-5562, 2001], but has been otherwise mostly neglected. We find that spread risk and interest rate risk are important factors that do not diversify away in a large portfolio context, especially when high-quality instruments are considered.     

Empirical Evaluation of Hybrid Defaultable Bond Pricing Models

A four‐factor model (the extended model of Schmid and Zagst) is presented for pricing credit risk related instruments such as defaultable bonds or credit derivatives. It is an advancement of an earlier three‐factor model. In addition to a firm‐specific credit risk factor, a new systematic risk factor in the form of GDP growth rate is included. This new model is set in the context of other hybrid defaultable bond pricing models and empirically compared to specific representatives. We find that a model based only on firm‐specific variables is unable to capture changes in credit spreads completely. However, it is shown that in this model, market variables such as GDP growth rates, non‐defaultable interest rates and firm‐specific variables together significantly influence credit spread levels and changes.     

An integrated pricing model for defaultable loans and bonds

In recent years, credit risk has played a key role in risk management issues. Practitioners, academics and regulators have been fully involved in the process of developing, studying and analysing credit risk models in order to find the elements which characterize a sound risk management system. In this paper we present an integrated model, based on a reduced pricing approach, for market and credit risk. Its main features are those of being mark to market and that the spread term structure by rating class is contingent on the seniority of debt within an arbitrage-free framework. We introduce issues such as, the integration of market and credit risk, the use of stochastic recovery rates and recovery by seniority. Moreover, we will characterize default risk by estimating migration risk through a “mortality rate”, actuarial-based, approach. The resultant probabilities will be the base for determining multi-period risk-neutral transition probability that allow pricing of risky debt in the trading and banking book.     

Modelling the evolution of credit spreads using the Cox process within the HJM framework: A CDS option pricing model

In this paper a simulation approach for defaultable yield curves is developed within the Heath et al. (1992) framework. The default event is modelled using the Cox process where the stochastic intensity represents the credit spread. The forward credit spread volatility function is affected by the entire credit spread term structure. The paper provides the defaultable bond and credit default swap option price in a probability setting equipped with a subfiltration structure. The Euler–Maruyama stochastic integral approximation and the Monte Carlo method are applied to develop a numerical scheme for pricing. Finally, the antithetic variable technique is used to reduce the variance of credit default swap option prices.     

Optimal investment and excess of loss reinsurance with short-selling constraint

This paper considers the optimal control problem with constraints for an insurance company. The risk process is assumed to be a jump-diffusion process and the risk can be reduced through an excess of loss (XL) reinsurance. In addition, the surplus can be invested in the financial market. In the financial market, the short-selling constraint is one of the main factors which make models more realistic. Our goal is to find the optimal investment-reinsurance policy without short-selling, which maximizes the expected exponential utility of the terminal wealth. By solving the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, the value function and the optimal investment-reinsurance policy are given in a closed form.     

Bayesian corporate bond pricing and credit default swap premium models for deriving default probabilities and recovery rates

This paper develops a Bayesian method by jointly formulating a corporate bond (CB) pricing model and credit default swap (CDS) premium pricing models to estimate the term structure of default probabilities and the recovery rate. These parameters are formulated by incorporating firm characteristics such as industry, credit rating and Balance Sheet/Profit and Loss information. A cross-sectional model valuing all given CB prices and CDS premiums is considered. The quantities derived are regarded as what market participants infer in forming CB prices and CDS premiums. We also develop a statistical significance test procedure without any distributional assumptions for the specified model. An empirical analysis is conducted using Japanese CB and CDS market data.     

Interest rate swap pricing with default risk under variance gamma process

Under the assumption that the dynamic assets price follows the variance gamma process, we establish a new bilateral pricing model of interest rate swap by integrating the reduced form model for swap pricing and the structural model for default risk measurement. Our pricing model preserves the simplicity of the reduced form model and also considers the dynamic evolution of the counterparty assets price by incorporating with the structural model for default risk measurement. We divide the swap pricing framework into two parts, simplifying the pricing model relatively. Simulation results show that, for a one year interest rate swap, a bond spread of one hundred basis points implies a swap credit spread about 0.1054 basis point.     

On a multiple credit rating migration model with stochastic interest rate

In this paper, we explore a pricing model for corporate bond accompanied with multiple credit rating migration risk and stochastic interest rate. The bond price volatility strongly depends on potentially multiple credit rating migration and stochastic change of interest rate. A free boundary problem of partial differential equation is presented, which is the equivalent transformation of the pricing model. The existence, uniqueness, and regularity for the free boundary problem are established to guarantee the rationality of the pricing model. Due to the stochastic change of interest rate, the discontinuous coefficient in the free boundary problem depends explicitly on the time variable but is convergent as time tends to infinity. Accordingly, an auxiliary free boundary problem is constructed, whose coefficient is the convergent limit of the coefficient in the original free boundary problem. With some constraint on the risk discount rate satisfied, we prove that a unique traveling wave exists in the auxiliary free boundary problem. The inductive method is adopted to fit the multiplicity of credit rating. Then we show that the solution of the original free boundary problem converges to the traveling wave in the auxiliary free boundary problem. Returning to the pricing model with multiple credit rating migration and stochastic interest rate, we conclude that the bond price profile can be captured by a traveling wave pattern coupling with a guaranteed bond price with face value equal to one at the maturity.     

基于价格均值回复与随机波动率的信用差价衍生产品定价

为了研究均值回复特征与随机波动率对金融衍生品定价的影响,考虑状态变量的均值回复特征与两种随机波动率过程:平方根过程与O rnste in-U h lenbeck过程,应用解偏微分与特征函数方法,分析衍生品的定价方程,推导出基于均值回复特征与随机波动率的信用差价期权、信用差价上限与下限的定价公式.结果表明,均值回复和随机波动率在衍生品定价中起重要影响.