Discussion Papers

We introduce a new method for the estimation of discount functions, yield curves and forward curves from government issued coupon bonds. Our approach...

This paper presents an approximated formula of the convexity adjustment of Constant Maturity Swap rates, using Wiener Chaos expansion, for multi...

This paper presented a new technique for the simulation of the Greeks (i.e. price sensitivities to parameters), efficient for strongly discontinuous...

This paper studies the link between public trading and the activity of a firm's large shareholder who can affect firm value. Public trading results in...

This paper analyses the incentives of the equityholders of a leveraged company to shut it down in a continuous time, stochastic environment. Keeping...

A large body of theoretical literature suggests that capital structure plays an important role as a managerial incentive mechanism. Cross-sectional...

Concepts of asset valuation based on the martingale properties of shadow (or marginal utility) prices in continuous-time, infinite-horizon stochastic...

This paper develops a new estimation procedure for characteristic-based factor models of stock returns. It describes a factor model in which the...

We provide a theoretical framework to address the historical debate about the role of banks in industrialization. We introduce banks into a model of...

The paper compares the trading costs for institutional investors who are subject to liquidity shocks, of trading in auction and dealer markets. The...

Debt with many creditors is analyzed in a continuous-time pricing model of the levered firm. We specifically allow for debtor opportunism vis-a-vis a...

This paper proposes a structural model that analyses the way financing constraints affect investment, consumption and saving decisions of the...

We analyse the trade characteristics and market conditions which determine the market share of an electronic order book at the London Stock Exchange...

This paper develops a simple model of an international lender of last resort (ILOLR). The World economy consists of many open economies, each with its...

Previous work examined the long-run profitability of strategies mimicking the trades of company directors in the shares of their own company. However...

Recent imperfect capital market theories predict the presence of asymmetries in the variation of small and large firms' risk over the economic cycle...