Valuation and hedging of OTC contracts with funding costs, collateralization and counterparty credit risk: Part 1

Abstract: The research presented in this work is motivated by some papers regarding hedging and valuation of financial securities subject to funding costs, collateralization and counterparty credit risk. Our goal is to provide a sound theoretical underpinning for some results presented in these papers by developing a unified martingale framework for the non-linear approach to hedging and pricing of OTC financial contracts. The impact that various funding bases and margin covenants exert on the values and hedging strategies for OTC contracts is examined.