This paper studies some properties of stochastic dominance (SD) for risk-averse and risk-seeking investors, especially for the third order SD (TSD). We call the former ascending stochastic dominance (ASD) and the latter descending stochastic dominance(DSD). We first discuss the basic property of...

This paper looks at divestitures by 144 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1991 and investigates whether and how accurately investors price the firm’s option to abandon assets in exchange for their exit value. Theory prices this real option as an American style put and...

This paper presents a model that measures the impact of political risk on portfolio investment when the political risks are multivariate and correlated across countries. The multivariate approach generalizes the single country model but retains most of its characteristics in terms of its ability...

The problem that we address in this paper stems from the trend to delegation in the water management field. It refers to the municipality’s negotiating disadvantage in the face of cartelized water management firms that makes delegation, once undertaken, virtually irreversible. We show why the...

We use the performance of Indian Eurobonds over the period 1990-1992 to examine the sensitivity of India's creditworthiness to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. We also explore the related question of whether the changes in creditworthiness, measured as the effect of changes in...

In this paper we look at the Indian financial crisis of 1990-1992 that included three credit rating downgrades of two notches each in the short space of 9 months. We measure to what extent India's financial difficulties were the result of conditions prevailing on the international capital...

In the United Kingdom Financial Reporting Standard (FRS) 13 requires narrative and numerical disclosure of all financial instruments held or issued, in order to provide information about their impact on the entity's risk profile. FRS 13 came into force for March 1999 year-ends. Under FRS 13...

In this paper we use the Clark (1991) methodology to estimate the macroeconomic financial risk premium from 1985 to 1997 for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela, the 6 Latin American countries with the largest stock markets, and test whether and to what extent it affects...

This paper compares the effect on firm value of different foreign currency (FC) financial hedging strategies identified by type of exposure (short or long term) and type of instrument (forwards, options, swaps and foreign currency debt). We find that hedging instruments depend on the type of...