This paper develops a quantitative framework for analyzing the impact of macroeconomic conditions on credit risk and dynamic capital structure choice. We begin by observing that when cash flows depend on current economic conditions, there will be a benefit for firms to adapt their default and...

We introduce a new approach on shape preserving estimation of cumulative distribution functions and probability density functions using the wavelet methodology for multivariate de- pendent data. Our estimators preserve shape constraints such as monotonicity, positivity and integration to one,...