Pricing Credut Derivative:BET Methodology

The basic concept of credit derivatives is a contract which allow participants transfer their credit risks. One party agrees to pay credit premium which transfers the credit risk of underlying assets to counterparty. In the thesis, we make complete definition of credit risk and introduce credit derivatives. The fundamental credit derivatives in the market are: Total Return Swaps、Credit Default Swap、Credit spread option、Credit-Linked Notes and Collateralized debt obligation.We will completely clarify all these derivatives that are mentioned above.
There are some methods pricing credit default swap such as Hull & White model、Copula method and Binomial Expansion Technique method. We divide two industries, industrial sector and bank sector respectively, and use BET method presented by Garcia(2003) to evaluate credit rating and premium of Basket CDS. After evaluation, the ratings are A and BBB for industry and bank respectively. The spreads are 74.2bps and 70.6bps for industry and bank respectively