This paper develops and refines a quick method for analyzing bond yields until maturity given their market price. It briefly discusses bond ratings and defines yield curves and examines their characteristics, uses and how information can be derived about the market sentiment by their analysis...

Log-normal process and martingale restriction bring some bias on the premium for option pricing models. It is possible to reduce the bias by adding more parameters like jump diffusion, stochastic volatility or regime switching. In this case closed form solutions and numerical approximations...

The aim of this study is introducing a new risk appetite index (RISE) methodology and then elaborating especially on its benefits while dealing with sovereign default probabilities. More specifically, providing two types of risk appetite indices, both calculated at individual investor level...

We use a survey data set of 4348 SMEs from 25 European countries to analyze the association between the use of factoring as a form of SME financing and the legal environment of the country where in which they operate. Our findings indicate that firms operating in countries with legal...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) challenges have changed the world of business and investment altogether. The business enterprises the world over have already started to recognize this fact and experimenting in several ways to explore newer business opportunities hidden therein. As a...