Total Value Adjustment for European Options in a Multi-Currency Setting

In this article we mainly extend to a multi-currency setting some previous works in the literature concerning total value adjustments in a single currency framework. The motiva- tion comes from the fact that financial institutions operate in global markets, so that the financial derivatives in their portfolios involve different currencies. More precisely, in this multi-currency setting we pose the PDE formulations for pricing the total adjustment and the financial derivative with counterparty risk. Moreover, we also formulate the problem in terms of expectations, which allows the use of suitable Monte Carlo techniques that over- come the curse of dimensionality associated to the numerical solution of PDE formulation, when a high number of stochastic factors are involved. Finally, we present some examples to illustrate the performance of the formulations and the proposed numerical techniques.
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