In a model with stochastic interest rates, irreversible investment, and two investment dates, the value of investment delay has two components: the expected gain from committing now to investment at a future date and the potential gain from the ability to reverse this commitment. Holding net...

The objective of this research is to measure the interaction among pricing variables in new issues of convertible debt. In underwriting convertible debt issues, there is a simultaneous tradeoff among the conversion premium, yield, and underwriting spread. Since the three endogenous variables are...

Infrequent trading induces biased estimates of the beta risk coefficient. This paper reports on the efficacy of approaches that seek to correct for this bias and documents the extent of thin trading among New Zealand securities. Parameter estimates free of the thin-trading bias are obtained....