“…Although default risks, credit risks, or counterparty risks for the pricing and hedging of derivatives, company securities, or underlying assets have all been discussed in the financial literature, few works have examined the default risk embodied in option contracts. In looking at financial research, these issues can be classified as defaultable bond problems (e.g., Merton, ; Moraux, ; Uhrig‐Homburg, ; Ishizaka & Takaoka, ), vulnerable option problems (e.g., Johnson & Stulz, ; Klein, ), bankruptcy and debt problems (see Acharya & Carpenter, ; Anderson & Sundaresan, ; Broadie, Chernov, & Sundaresan, ; François & Morellec, ; Leland, ; Leland & Toft, ; Mella‐Barral, ; Mella‐Barral & Perraudin, ), and counterparty risk problems (see Chang & Hung, ; Hull & White, ; Hung & Liu, ; Klein, , etc.). The above literature has not discussed the case of allowing option sellers to freely walk away from their obligations.…”