Trading in the Credit Derivatives market with equity-based Credit Default Swap spreads
This thesis gives an introduction to BASEL II and hence a motivation for the use of credit derivatives in general and Credit Default Swaps in particular. We develope (from Atlan and Leblanc (2005) and Bengtsson and Bjurhult (2006)) a model to price the CDS contracts and use this in a trading strategy - trying to find risk arbitrage. The probability of default (PD), used in the pricing model, is de
