Herein, we develop a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) valuation of securities with default risk. Consequently, the optimal recovery problem with quasi-linear utility functions is discussed with the help of the stochastic maximum principle. Finally, two important examples: the exponential and power utility cases are studied and their business implications are considered.
Based on a novel extension of classical Hoeffding-Fréchet bounds, we provide an upper VaR bound for joint risk portfolios with fixed marginal distributions and positive dependence information. The positive dependence information can be assumed to hold in the tails, in some central part, or on a general subset of the domain of the distribution function of a risk portfolio. The newly provided VaR bound can be interpreted as a comonotonic VaR computed at a distorted confidence level and its quality...