
444 7 Default Risk: An Enlargement of Filtration Approach
is a G-martingale. Note that, the first integral, which describes the bounded
variation part before τ, is the same as in progressive enlargement of filtration
– even without the honesty hypothesis – (see Proposition 5.9.4.10), and that
the second integral, which describes the bounded variation part after τ,isthe
same as in Proposition 5.9.3.1.
Exercise 7.6.3.4 Prove that, if τ is an initial time with E
Q
(1/α
τ
∞
) < ∞,
there exists a probability
Q equivalent to Q under which τ and F
∞
are
independent.
Hint: Use Exercise 5.9.3.4.
Exercise 7.6.3.5 Let τ be an initial time which avoids F-stopping times.
Prove that the (H)-hypothesis holds if and only if α
u
t
= α
u
t∧u
.
Exercise 7.6.3.6 Let (K
u
t
,t≥ 0) be a family of F-predictable processes
indexed by u ≥ 0 (i.e., for any u ≥ 0,t→ K
u
t
is F-predictable).
Prove that E(K
τ
t
|F
t
)=
∞
0
K
u
t
α
u
t
η(du) .
7.6.4 Explosive Defaults
Let
dX
t
=(θ − k(t)X
t
)dt + σ
X
t
dW
t
where the parameters are chosen so that P(T
0
< ∞)=1whereT
0
is the
first hitting time of 0 for the process X. Andreasen [17] defines the default
time as in the Cox process modelling presented in Subsection 7.3.1, setting
the process (λ
t
,t ≥ 0) equal to 1/X
t
before T
0
and equal to +∞ after time
T
0
. Note that the default time is not a totally inaccessible stopping time
(obviously, P(τ = T
0
) is not null).
The survival probability is, for F
t
= F
X
t
,
P(τ>T|G
t
)=1
{t<τ}
E
exp
−
T
t
λ
s
ds
|F
t
:=1
{t<τ}
L(t, T, X
t
) .
The process
L(t, T, X
t
)exp
−
t
0
λ
s
ds
= L(t, T, X
t
)exp
−
t
0
X
−1
s
ds
is a local-martingale, hence
∂
t
L +(θ − k(t)x)∂
x
L +
1
2
σ
2
x∂
xx
L −
1
x
L =0,
and, taking into account the boundary conditions
L(t, T, 0) = 0,L(T,T,x)=1,L(t, T, ∞)=1