July 11th, 2007, 3:47 pm
Just a thought, I don't think most banks price the correlation smile in their equity ex products nor do they price it in their system.Has anyone heard of a paper that would deal with this issue ? I am more interesting to understand how to determine correlation smile on equity. guess we can come up with something based on arbitrage with credit but not sure it gives a real approx of the risk on the 80%, 70% zone.