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FILTERING IN A HAZARD RATE CHANGE-POINT MODEL WITH FINANCIAL AND LIFE-INSURANCE APPLICATIONS

MATTEO BUTTARAZZI & CLAUDIA CECI

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance2026https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219024926500032article
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This paper develops a continuous-time filtering framework for estimating a hazard rate subject to an unobservable change-point. This framework naturally arises in both financial and insurance applications, where the default intensity of a firm or the mortality rate of an individual may experience a sudden jump at an unobservable time, representing, for instance, a shift in the firm’s risk profile or a deterioration in an individual’s health status. By employing a progressive enlargement of filtration, we integrate noisy observations of the hazard rate with default-related information. We characterize the filter, i.e. the conditional probability of the change-point given the information flow, as the unique strong solution to a stochastic differential equation driven by the innovation process enriched with the discontinuous component. A sensitivity analysis and a comparison of the filter’s behavior under various information structures are provided. Our framework further allows for the derivation of an explicit formula for the survival probability conditional on partial information. This result applies to the pricing of credit-sensitive financial instruments such as defaultable bonds, credit default swaps, and life insurance contracts. Finally, a numerical analysis illustrates how partial information leads to delayed adjustments in the estimation of the hazard rate and consequently to mispricing of credit-sensitive instruments when compared to a full-information setting.

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@article{matteo2026,
  title        = {{FILTERING IN A HAZARD RATE CHANGE-POINT MODEL WITH FINANCIAL AND LIFE-INSURANCE APPLICATIONS}},
  author       = {MATTEO BUTTARAZZI & CLAUDIA CECI},
  journal      = {International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219024926500032},
}

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