This paper assumes a structural credit model with underlying stochastic volatility combining the Black/Cox approach with the Heston model. We model the equity of a company as a barrier call option on its assets. The assets are assumed to follow a stochastic volatility process; this implies an...

The relationship between personal and firm bankruptcy is intuitively understood but has not been previously studied. When a person files a bankruptcy petition they reduce their spending on goods and services sold by companies. Similarly, when a firm files for bankruptcy some employees lose their...

The labor studies literature has for many years accepted the labor hoarding theory. That theory derives from seminal work by Oi (1962), Solow (1964), Miller (1971), and Fair (1985). Those studies argue that as a result of the absolute cost of hiring and training certain workers that even when...

The article analyses the role of international supply chains as transmission channels of a financial shock. Because individual firms are interdependent and rely on each other, either as supplier or client, a financial shock affecting a single firm, such as the termination of a line of credit,...

Following every major financial debacle (of which we now have had three in the span of a decade – the Asian crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the subprime crisis), all the parties that bear some responsibility for the soundness of financial institutions come under scrutiny – the managers (and...

The stunning failure of a number of banks during the recent crisis has put regulatory intervention high on the agenda of governments. Adequate risk monitoring, including by credit rating agencies, measurement, and management have proven to be a daunting task, whereas regulation of innovative...

In this paper we discuss the main innovation in central bank cooperation during the financial crisis of 2008-09, namely the emergency provision of international liquidity through the establishment of bilateral central bank swap facilities, which have evolved to form interconnected swap networks....

Multi-fractal analysis is now widely used in medicine to distinguish healthy and pathological conditions (i.e., healthy and cancerous tissues). We follow the same approach for financial markets: fractal tools disclose hidden information from time series and allow the identification of market...

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a liquidity crisis. Thus we must both study the source of the crisis and evaluate the regulatory measures to address it. How was this liquidity crisis and its associated risk related to other forms of risk? What was the nature of the vicious cycle that...

This paper looks at the implications of September 11th on the financial services industry. Our research finds that despite these horrific events, the securities industry will be able to post its fifth best performance of all time. This has been made possible by a combination of falling interest...