NO.PZ2024050101000097
问题如下:
Sam prices a put option on an asset with the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model and calculates a model premium of $25. This $25 also coincidentally equals the present-valued expected exposure faced by Sam with respect to the short option position. Sam estimates the probability of counterparty default by the option writer to be 10% with loss given default of 40%, such that the expected loss = $25 EE (writer) × 10% PD × 40% LGD = $1. He concludes that the CVA-adjusted (net of counterparty risk) option price is $24. His colleague Jane observes that this calculation assumes no wrong-way risk. But there is a high, positive correlation between underlying asset price and the credit quality of the option writer counterparty: both the counterparty and underlying share a sector that reacts to the same common factors such that adverse economic regimes depress sector asset prices while lowering sector credit quality (and increasing credit spreads). Is Jane correct that the CVA-adjusted option value deserves further adjustment?
选项:
A.As the correlation is positive, this is instead right-way risk; but the true CVA-adjusted value remains $24 as there is no adjustment for right-way risk
B.As the correlation is positive, this is instead right-way risk; therefore, the true CVA-adjusted value will be higher than $24
C.Jane is correct that this is wrong-way risk; therefore, true CVA-adjusted value will be lower than $24
D.Jane is correct that this is wrong-way risk but expected loss is not impacted by correlation, so Sam correctly has the CVA-adjusted value at $24
解释:
英文解析:
We refer to wrong-way risk as the adverse (negative) correlation between the exposure to the counterparty and its credit quality. Alternatively, it can be stated as the positive correlation between exposure and credit spread.
中文解析:
我们将错向风险定义为对交易对手的风险敞口与其信用质量之间的负相关关系。或者,也可以表述为风险敞口与信用利差之间的正相关关系。
题干描述的是错向风险,因此排除A和B。
信用估值调整(CVA)=模型溢价-预期损失,预期损失增加,CVA会降低,C正确。
D写的事 expected loss is not impacted by correlation, expected loss 的公式是 PD*EAD*LGD,这跟correlation没有关系呀,根据这个公式,D选项错在哪里呢?
如果要根据correlation调整风险的话 ,这个不是在stress testing counterparty exposures那里才计算吗?这个不是CVA呀,请老师解释一下谢谢